Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-03-04
More Trouble Ahead for the Cor
pulent Woman.
New and Daring Creation on Its Way
From Paris Described as "Skirt
With Sort of Pantaloon At.
tachment."


New York.-According to cable
dispatch from Paris the hobble skirt
is about to be supplanted by new
and daring creation in the way OF q
skirt which Is described by dress
makers as "a skirt with a sort OF
pantaloon attachment" The new
skirt, 1t Is said, is the invention OF
Paul Poiret, a gownmaker of Paris. A
New York house has already imported
from Paris a consignment Of these
skirts, which are being displayed to
dressmakers here, and the house Is
prepared to measure and fit any wom-
an with the new creation who thinks
she would like to wear 1t.
Some of the city's dressmakers were
asked to describe the new fashion.
Their ideas of the skirt differed. and
none of them could give the same de-
scription Of 1t, but they all objected to
the use of the words "pantaloon,"
"breeches" or trousers" in describing
1t, though none of them was able to
suggest a more delicate word for the
skirts masculine attachment.
A woman representative Of an I'M
porting house, said: "Yes, we have
heard about the new skirt. 1t is to be
launched as novelty, and maybe 1t
will become very popular. But please
don't call the little part of 1t the
pants or rather the trousers, as you
men say, because It is nothing of the
sort. 1t Is Just two little foot holes.
First, you stick a foot through one,
and then you stick the other foot
through the other hole, and there you
are. II is not at all difficult, | assure
you, and the women will not find 1t
So"
When asked whether the two holes
resemble the legs of trousers, she re-
piled: II suppose so, but you must
understand the legs are very short"
Asked whether the pantaloons of
the skirt extended as far below the
knee as the ankle, she blushingly re-
piled: 81 cannot answer your Ques-
ton"
Another dressmaker described the
new skirt as being very tight The
pantaloon attachment, she said, would
not be visible. If the skirt should be-
come the rage In Paris, she said, the
New York women would have to
adopt It whether they liked 1t or not,
otherwise they would lose their repu-
tation for keeping up with the fash
Ions. When asked If she regarded
the new skirt as the forerunner of
trousers for women, she replied: 1T
is wrong to speak Of that part of the
skirt as trousers. I don't know ex-
actly what you would call 1t, but you
don't describe the Turkish women as
wearing trousers.
II don't think that our American
women would ever take to the trous-
ers worn by men. II would not only
nEse1 ;hem-look at DR.. Mary Walk
er--but there is no beauty in trousers
for women. Let woman put on
trousers and her beauty is lost for
ever: besides, the men would never
tolerate such thing.
THE idea of this new skirt Is not
to popularize trousers for women, but
to add little touch of orientalism to
their dress. However. the skirt
which will be introduced here is
much modified form of the skirt In its
Partisan makeup"
Nearly all of the dressmakers
agreed that II the skirt should be
adopted by women, as the dressma-
kers understand it. they would have to
readjust their manner of dressing
themselves; instead of following the
usual custom of putting on skirt
by first throwing It over the head,
they would have to don the new one
just as trousers are put on, by enter
ing the skirt feet first For slender