Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-07-27
SIZE OF HOLES.
In Peek-a-eoo Shirt Waists May be
REGULATED bv Conuress,

u! TSSN-d-6oo SnIrt waists May De
Regulated by Congress.
When congress convenes again it
may be called upon to consider the
peek-a-boo waist.
Rev. Father George NJ. A. Schroer-
ner. OF Rochester, Pa, who interrupt.
ed his sermon at st. Cecilia's Roman
Catholic church last Sunday to order
two women in peek-a-boo waists from
the building, has created a precedent
He told his parishioners to go home
and take off those bathing SUITS"
adding, this is church-not bath
ing house.
The attention of the purity organ
ization is thus pointedly directed to
a threatening evil. and legislation may
presently be demanded to prescribe
the number and size of the holes in
the lingerie waists, which shall ad-
nit the breezes and incidentally af-
ford tantalizing views of the Shout
ders of the wearer.
Since the hue and cry over open.
work hoiery, which began with the
merest pin pricks and has now come
TO finish no thicker than a face veil,
the matter of our national modesty
has had some fearful shocks in wom-
ans wear. Mere man might have
worn openwork socks and peek-a-boo
shirts till the crack of doom and no
one would have credited him with
more than an ingenious desire to keep
cool. But the vision of pink plump.
ness through these hide-and-seek ar
rangements which meet you on all
types of the female form divine is "a
horse of a different color"
Had Father Schrerner been CONVEX
SAINT with present day fashions he
would have realized that, as a matter
OF fact, he was casting an undeserved
aspersion on the bathing suit in COM
pairing it with the peek-a boo. The
bathing suit of today is infinitely more
discreet than woman's street garb. OF
silk or mohair. it exposes only the
throat. 1t reaches below the knee.
the black stockings are without an
aperture and the arms are covered
half way or quite to the elbow. Set
this demure figure beside a girl in cut
out embroidery waist and mark the
difference.
The linen is cut out in large chunks
to accommodate the design and the
effect is luminous. A large leaf of
warmly tinted flesh is charmingly
outlined in eyelet embroidery, or a
piece of satin skin looms up as the
center of rose. If it is conven-
tlonal pattern you have flesh formed
IN squares and angles. More often
and by far the most piquant--it is
just holes. holes that have increased
in dimensions through the seasons:
holes that give the Kaleidoscope and
embarrassing visions. You gasp at
impending revelations.
\ At first the excursions into the peek
a-boo were as mild as the first open
i WIN oeoShiAS. IL Tie summer OIL
1900 it was confined to a modest little
yoke which outlined pretty girl s
neck and gave such fleeing glimpses
of the interior decorations that it was
hailed as a positive inspiration. Our
descent has been rapid. BY 1902 we
had adopted graphic openwork border
to the yoke, which left in a question
no flight. The year 1904 found us with
VS. that strayed to unaccustomed
depths and apologized for themselves
with large blue bows on the lingerie
beneath. BY 1905 We had arrived at
panels with islands of modesty be.
tween and in the present year of grace
we have "all-overs'-an occasional dot
on the openwork to save the situation.
The sleeves have risen from elbow
length half way to the shoulder.
But this is not all Some genius.
doubtless to keep pace with the times.
has introduced the openwork corset.
We now only await shredded lin
gerie before the fashions of the Fiji
Island belle are accurately followed.
Law or the brown-taied moth alone
/ can save us.-New York World.