The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-09-12
"SeatIess Gown" Now a Real
ity Because Newspaper
Reporter Saw One.
IN BUSY NEW YORK CITY
EXCITEMENT REiGNED SUPREME
FOR A FEW MINUTES AND SORE
EYES GIVEN TREAT NOT SOON
FORGOTTEN.

New York, Sept. 1.-THE "seatless
gown" of which New York women had
their first inkling last June, is at last
a reality. A reporter saw it today.
It might not be recognized at first by
it's name-no one could tell what that
would call for-but the new design
has features all its own, and, as its
originator says:
"A woman can't look wide in it no
matter what her figure is"
New York women had an opportun.
ity to see the seatless gown at the
convention of the United Tailors of
America. which opened it's weeks ses-
sion at Masonic hall today. If they
didn't recognize it by style they did
by the color, which is as up to date as
the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES"
The seatless gown held its first pub
lie rehearsal-and not a dress rehear-
sal, either-at the meeting Of the Bos-
ton branch of the American Tailors'
association last June. 1t had only ma
terialized then from the Pigment in
the designers. brain, in a skeleton.
crinoline model. and the big New York
tailors who heard rumors OF it's
straight lines said sneeringly that the
seatless frock never could be more
than bath robe anyhow.
Like Nothing In Bath Robes.
rs there anything of a bath robe
about that" queried the designer to-
day as he exhibited his "aeroplane-
amethyst seatless" gem. and the re-
porter admitted frankly that nothing
in the bath robe line. masculine or
feminine, that had ever come under
the reportorial eyes had borne the
slightest resemblance to it.
The seatless gown requires an ex-
PLANTATION of its appearance and the
idea Of the inventor. In the first place
the gown is all there, trim and taut,
and there is nothing missing, as the
name seems to suggest. Nor, though
seatless gown, does it condemn the
wearer eternally to a standing posi-.
ton.
The United Ladies' Tailors' associa.
ton of America stands for everything
that is comfortable aud hygienic and
beautiful, and those and more are the
things the seatless frock stands for
the designer says.
Privately he implies that he doesn't
consider all feminine wearing apparel
altogether decent-the poor women
can't help that, perhaps, when they
have to take the gowns that are made
by the wholesale or on the lines of all
other frocks, so he has come to the
rescue
Special Corset for Gown.
The "seatless'' gown is really q
straight back gown and there is soon
to be straight back corset to veal
with it and then the stout woman
can be comfortable and beautiful, and
to repeat the designers words, she
can't possibly look wide"
The originator Of the seatless gown
doesn't believe in backward curves
To avoid these he has cut his mode
seatless gown. which is a pretty stree,
frock coat and skirt. so that while i,
fits with delicate close curves ovel
the hips the material is carried dowr
in straight line from the center o.
the back to little below the waist
and obliterates the usual indentatior
there, and while the suit has the ap
pearance of being tight fitting it has
the effect of narrowness.
| The originator Of the seatless gowr
doesn't approve of the wav womer
walk. He thinks they walk with &
swing-well, he doesn't like it. ant
he says that when they have the seat
less gown with the straight back cor
set under it. obliterating pronounced
curves, things are going to be chang
ed, and the stout woman need no
wabble as she walks and she is goin,
to look thin.