Evening journal., 1908-06-24
SHEATH GOWNS ON
CHESTNUT STREET
Two Chorus Girls in Flaming
Directories Almost MObbed
by Pedestrians

PHILADELPHIA. June 24-"What's
the matter2 Free Circus paradef
Gibboney arrested? NIcNichol COM
ing? What it it? Geel A man WITH
a wilted collar leaned against a lamp
post at Eleventh and Chestnut sire. t.
yesterday afternoon at ? o'clock ana
gasped.
Lord they're sheath gowns; the
real, unadulterated, uneNpurgated, un
mitigated costumes. Whewl"
He mopped his facs and joined the
hundred other rubberinS men and boys
who We're lined up in a solid phalanA
impeding tho progress of two
statuesQue brunettes. swathed in flame
colored sheath gowns, who alighted
from an automobile at the corner and
attempted to walk down Chestnut
street.
"Well, did you ever?'' a middle-agea
woman in q severe bonnet stammered.
while she dropped her Boston shopping
bag and stared N CONSERVATION.
Move on. move on: don't block up
the street there!" A cop waved his
white-gloved hands. but the mob thick
ened and the two sheaihec figures were
caught in it's vortex.
They didn't seem to mind the glares
and stares a bit. but pushed their un
abashed way through he crowd as cool
ly as if they had on rainy day skirts
and white shirtW aists.
And the Men Rubbered.
Tho eminently proper crossed the
street to the other side with a shocked
shudder and gave the sheathed figures
a wide berth. Among the eminently
proper there were but few men. Tho
latter struggled and strained to get a
nearer view and see al there was to be
seen. There wasn't much to be seen
in the way of material but there was
great deal of style and a goodly
amount Of figure.
The two girls were clothed exactly
alike. Their Directoire gowns were a
brillian orange, or fiams color. skinpy,
slimpsy and shimmeunR. They wero
draped tight across the figure, with all
the fulness In the, back and. most hor.
rifying feature of all. iliere was a slit
all the way up the left side of the skirt
to the knee.
Every step the girls took was reve-
lation Of silk hosiery and dainty suede
shoes with polished ateel buckles.
There was no feminine frou-frou Of
petticoats, because there were no petit
coats to frou-frou. The flying draperies
were caught In the breeze and flashed
like tongues of flame % the right and
left
After walking half a block the girls
stopped at a photographers.
The Real Thing, All Right.
There's nothing so very out of the
way about these gowns" Miss Grace
Won Studdiford said. giving her trail-
ing draperies a graceful kick and look.
ing pleasant" for the camera man.
1--WE belong to the Mimic World COM
pany at the Lyric. These are show cos
tunes we wear in one of the acts.
They're the real thing in Directoife,' -
Miss Hattie Lorraine. her swathed
companion. added. "and real sheathy.
don't you think? How did we come
to wear them down Chestnut street?
/ Oh. the girls in the show just dared
us to. and we took the dare Always
heard Philadelphia was slow. but. say,
we got a warm reception. all right"
Charles Wanamaks-. press repre-
sentative for the Lyric Theatre. who
lowered around IN the distance ara
called mounted policeman to ex;rs-
cate the sheathed chorus ladies from
the crowd and help them into an auto.
mobile waiting to take them back ID
the stage entrance. stood manfully by
teh story of the dare. He put 1t al
up to the girls.