Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-03-08
this BEATS HAREM
SKIRT A BLOCK
-Four Quarter Is the Latest
Female Agony

New York, March THE harem
skirt had hardly made its frs APP
pearance on the streets of New York
when a dangerous rival, even a newer
creation of the drassmaker's art, ar
rived in port
The newest thing is called the four
quarter skirt. 1t came in this morn
ing on the steamer Prinz Friedrich
Wilhelm, of the North German Lloyd
line, and it caused great excitement
whenever it appeared on deck during
the voyage across
The four-quarter skirt was worn by
Mrs. Jean Marchal, wife Of Albert
Marchal, an importer of Mexico City.
Marchal and his wife are on their way
back to Mexico, after a visit TO the
big dressmaking shops of Paris. The
ship was two days out from Bremen
and it was too late for any of the
passengers to escape when the skirt
made its first appearance on tae
promenade deck.
Visions of Green and Black.
1t was made of dark green silk, and
those whose eyesight was not defec.-
i've got a glimpse of black knicker-
| bockers and stockings of the same
color underneath The rest of the
wearers costume consisted of black
velvet slippers, with diamond buckles,
short black coat and a large black
hat encircled with red roses.
The Marchal skirt is not a meal
sack struck by lightning. In fact, !
bears not the remotest cousinship to
pantaloon of the seraglio. 1t is not
one-piece affair.
1t starts off with a pair of velvet
knickerbockers of Louis QuartorZe cut,
to which are added silk stockings and
pumps with jeweled buckles.
Over this is worn slashed ski
-slashed 50 that you get the effect
of barrel with alternate slaves miss
ing But it is cut SO that when one
stands erect and out of draft the
knickerbockers and silk stockings are
not visible.
Many SlasheS.
The designer of the four-quarter
skirt has made no attempt to obtain
a trousers effect. The new garment
is like the directoire skirt, only muca
more SO. Instead Of being split on
one side, it is silt in front, behind and
on both sides. This divides it inc
quarters and gives an excuse for its
name At the bottom the flaps are
fastened together.
This gives it in a heavy gale the
appearance of a smashed-up balloon,
but it prevents the flaps from getting
in the wearer's eyes and obstrucung
her vision.
Mrs Marchal wore this sensation on
ly one night She went to Paris for
the express puspose of going the
harem skirt one better, but when she
felt the Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm
trcmble with emotion at the sensa-
ton she created she modestly retired
to her stateroom.
Upon first entering the saloon draw
ing tcom in the skirt Mrs. Marchal
caused only a slight gasp among the
women. The ingeniously coririval
ribbon skirt chung to her in a mesh
that concealed the knickerbockors and
stockings. 1t was very clmgy skirt.
made of costly emboriered silk, but It'll
was not until the Mexican leader c.
fashion get o"s on deck hat the skirt
was seen to be not skirt.
Flies Out in PemantS.
A stiff westerly breeze was blow
ing, and at the very first swish of This
wind the streamers of the skirt par5d
and few out in random pennants. Two
of the ships officers almost fell off
the bridge, and a sailor who wlsI
coming down the ratlins barely miss |
ed plunge into the sea. Promenad- |
ers stopped and gasped, the women
oben-eyed, the men quickly shading
their expression from wonder anG
amusement to keen appreciation.
Mrs. Marchal ignored the battery of
looks and s,arcs and swiftly found Il
shelter from The wind. In the lee Of
the deck house the skirt was again
skirt but when Mrs Marchal entered |
the smoking room and crossed her
knees, the skirt was again not a
skirt
The poker players who saw forgot
to draw cards and bet insanely On
busted Pushes The play of the bridge
hends was completely demoralized
Mr.. Marchal does not expect that the
advent of the new skirts in Mexico
will have any effect upon the revolu-
ton.