The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-18
HOOPSKIRTS COMING AGAIN.
THREiTENED WAVE or CRINO-
LINES FROM or THE WEST.
What Won't the Flat,ron HrcrxeS DO with
the Fashion OF 40 Years AEo!-Is Our
subway HG Enough" End seat Hog
I Is Doomed NOtlistPs In Doubling Mood

The criroline has come again, 1t has
hit that center of fashion and culture,
Pit,sburg Inevitably it will sweep on to
provincial New York. Even as We go to
press there comes the rlrnor that the sum
mer corps of Fittsburg visitors, includ-
Ing sixteen millionarc,' wives. is on the
woy to New York dressed in crinolines.
Two special cars with extra wide doors
viii carry them to the metropolis,
When autumn is balmy upoa the Rialto
re1 and other lower animals vii! have to
walk in the streets. There will he no room
on the sidewalks,
Il Is a matter of forty years since the hoop
skirt fourishcd in New York. Sideways
and escalators and Flatiron buildings and
great many other new and strange things
have happened since that time. When
Broadway blossoms with the autumn crop
Of crnoines. the oldest inhab!tant won I
know little old New York.
There's the Flatiron. for example. The
belle Of 1885 was used to hreezes which blew
IN only one direction at time. Even
thea she had her troubles. These "glimps-
ing ankles" which YOU read about in 'ers
dc soc,Dt Of war tines there will be many
q GLIMPSE of more than ankles before the
Flatiron.
When the Flatron wind is at it. merr,est ,
1t has a way of rising straight UP. a. all the
yarader- know Mhft VIII ha1ren to a
hoopskjrt in an OILS rect wind? What
happens to an uu reha when the wind
catches it on tho under s.dc2 Possibly
the modiSteS will MI :he hen with five
pounds Of shot, az they used to treat riding
haolt- in the days Of the full! skirt. If Il o
shot does it, WORK welt, when the tlatiron
reeze Is at it, widest and w.cIede-t the
FlatrOn rub CrHeck- will en- oy the plea sa mt
- ectace OF an atmosphere filed with
fCatlns fall toEette' blown TO the level
of the second story windows like stray
uni rela-
And the drrt1'i.,. .er, when she takes
the order for SKIRT, Will say
Yes. madame. With or without the
Flatiron hem"
Then there is the open car, Here, the
crnone will work one mighty reform.
There will he no more end seat hog. A.
She mounts the step and sweeps to her seat,
everything will sweep efore her No
more squeezing past kne e-. Reform will
follow in street ear manners. No man SO
! old as to keep his seat with thirty-siX
yards Of crepe de chine, or whatever women
make en- of, crinkling against his legs,
and FrldlroH arrangement playing
tattoo on hiI knees. The most absent
minded reader Of the evening papers Will
ttand-!f there * any place to star with a
lnarination falls when il comes to rush
lour on the subway. Strikes and broken
water mains will be only minor incidents
in the troubles Of Mr.. Belmont 1t i, 8
O'Clock, and the l.enoX avenue express
which yhoud have pulled out three minutes
$50 i still there. All the cars have rig
- Jed go ahead" except No. 2.
"Nha; the hlazes i the matter wid vo,i.c?"
NelIs back the conductor to gateman No. 9
Cheese it and come beck and help"
I".I9 ratcman No. .. Another loidy
naeter rings up the wrcCking crew.
Take ny the crinoline?" said Mrs Robert
Osborne Yesterday. Il think not. Women
tre more independent of fashion nevada vs.
I an they We're in the rs. They wont
et" W. anything so iaconvenient and
ll""ous."
II" criHoine?" said the head cutter at
l.eGtem'- "Nevaire," There was a whole
Interview in the way she said it.