The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1909-05-22
GOWN
--LATEST FASHION
Women vsurp Mems Clothes
and Make Him just an
Ordinary lndividual.

tan.ner Shiptou when she made
her famous prophecy did fairly well
in guessing at the wonders that
would happen in the world, and
maybe saved her reputation as a
prophet by the one general e n
tence.
Now strange things shall yet
he true" but then Mother Shipton
declared the world would end in
1881, and therein she slipped up.
She couldn't he expected 10 toretell
things that would happen after the
world had come to an end and
started all over again.
And now that wonder has come.
With its coming must 20 the last
vestige OF mans sex supremacy,
must 20 his self respect, must 20
the dominance OF manhood over
womanhood.
/ He is to lose the last emblem
and insignia OF his manhood TO be-
come Just one OF a throng OF hu.
manity all wearing trousers. And
what is a man without his trousers'
For years women have been
steadily encroaching on mems
dress until the only distinctive ar
ticle OF apparel in his wardrobe that
his wife or his sister could mol
wear and he in style is his trousers
and now they want his trousers.
The pantaloon gown is to he the
successor OF the Directoire. That
is the decree OF the ultra fashion.
able modistes. and no sooner had
the decree gone forth than a local
dressmaker was called upon to
make n OF the things. IL was
not a Tucumcari woman who
wanted it; that may be some com
tort, but a lady from New York
who had been stopping at a local
hotel Tor a few weeks recently
sought out a local woman's tailor
and wanted a pantaloon gown
made. She didn't get IL because
the tailor had no pattern.
But OF the p~antaloon gown. IL
is a iearfupy and wonderfully made
thing and trenches so closely upon
masculine attire that sell respecting
men will have to 70 back to the
"knickers" OF colonial days with
their legs sticking out OF velvet
breeches ii they hope to be distin.
guished from their mothers, daught-
ers and sisters.
The p~antaloon gown is young
yet and is really pantaloon only
from the knees down, but II is
bound to grow up lust as other
styles have done. Ii also has a
train but a train, like a bulldogs
tail, is only made to cut off on the
slightest provocation. The bot
toms OF the pantaloons OF the pan.
taloon gowns are, moreover, three
yards around, but in that they
differ but little from the masculine
style oil a iew years ago and they
can be made to shrink probably
until they assume the dimensions
OF the peg tops OF more recent
styles. The pantaloon gown also
is adorned with e buttons
running down the side, but buttons
can be cut of. The directoire
effect is retained al the waist and
in the back, but that is only a tenn
porary bluh.
So while the pantaloon gown is
now somewhat different from the
article worn by men il is neverthe.
less distlnctively in the trouser
class and with a few notifications
would not be ~noticeably different
from the forked garments worn by
men.
First it was the Merry Widow,
next the directoire, and 10Y the
pantalOon Mother Shipton would
find il hard to prophesy what the
next wonder will he,
But the incoming OF the panta-
loon gown marks an epoch in the
history OF men. IL means tina,
, they are losing class and caste.
1t mean that their boasted lord
! ship is a dream, an idle dream on
which they can mediate when the,
find themselves bundled up ir
. p~etticoats running to their wives
I to be hooked up in the back. The,
e may have a year or two OF grace
given them by the women this TAI
from the metropolis, but II tina.
. local tailor gets the pattern he ha'