The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-05-01
THROUGH THE LORGNETTE
High Heels for seragiol Skirts.

High Heels for Seragiol Skirts.
Although close observation of the
fashionable horizon fails to reveal
any stray specimens of the much
Wanted harem skirt-except as
shrinkingly worn by show girls pre-
coded by press agents and brass
band-this grotesque invention seems
to have found one class of believers
at least. These trustful ones are
the manufacturers of women's shoes.
pending success of the Turkish trou-
serette lis the craze for high heels
| noticeable on every side. Hitherto, 1T
seems, heels an inch and half or
two inches tail were considered suf-
ficient to belittle woman's feet. Now
however, there has begun an epi-
demic Of light summer oXfords, in
russet and patent leather, and of
slippers, in everything from undress-
ed kid to satin, with heels ranging
height. Seldom, even on the must
cal comedy stage, have such Eiffel
towers been affixed to footgear, and
the makers say the fad is due di-
rectly to the influence of the much
bespoken but little seen garment of
the seraglio. The harem skirt man
ifestly is impossible for any woman
with large feet, because it not only
permits their feet to be revealed
startlingiy, but also presents a gem
her feet may rival in size the cramp-
ed extremities of mandarin's daugh-
ter. the future wearer of the trou-
serette already is getting used to trip
perpendicular, so lengthy are their
heels.
Harem Bathing Skirt to be Seen Here
1t is quite probable the American
public will view the nearest approach
to a harem skirt possible on the bath
ing beaches about the metropolis this
summer. Its sponsors are too orig
have designed the ''harem bathing
skirt" although that would be its
proper name. To the eye of the mex
pert beholder, the newest specimen
of surf costume, seen on a calm,
MINDLESS day, will appear much the
styles in bathing suits despite many
rumors, vary about as much as the
spots on leopard. 1t might be re-
marked the skirt seemed a bit short
er than usual, and that this brevity
permitted a glimpse of certain bag
gy garments ending just above the
knee. But when the ocean breezes
begin to blow or the fair bather ven-
lures to drop down on the sand, the
salient points of the new apparel will
be plainly in evidence. For the
short skirt, it happens, is slit up eth
er side almost to the waist which
makes it most comfortable to swim
/ in, and incidentally lives up to the
seraglio idea by revealing just enough
of the baggy garments it covers to
prove they are there.
Women Obtain Good Roads.
Prominent women in Missouri,
many of them motorists, have shown
members of their sex in other States
that. though they haven't the ballot,
their persistence in petitioning the
~
the good roads movement. In Mis-
souri, the women have sent hundreds
of letters to the State capital on the
subject, indicating not only zeal for
better highways. but keen insight in
to the Possibilities of road better
ment The example set by the Mis-
souri, women is spreading, for in
States near by women are following
in the path Of their aggressive Mis-
souri, sisters, and their activity has
right demand for the construction
and maintenance of good roads.
Baggy Knees in New Skirts.
1t is becoming more and more i'm
pressed on women affecting mannish-
ness in attire that there are incon-
veniences, possibly not always antici-
pated, that must be encountered in
| masculine in style. With this springs
new skirts, which are tighter than
ever and have been described as more
like one leg of a pair of trousers
than anything else, women are hav-
ing the bagging at the knee trouble,
heretofore an annoyance suffered on
ly by men. Owners Of the present ex-
tremely tight hobble skirts, who put
them on about Easter, are now begin
ming to realize that sitting tends to
stretch the cloth at the knees so that
after a while the skirts do not hang
as gracefully as originally. The re-
suit is that close-fitting skirts have to
be sent as frequently to the tailor's
for pressing as do the trousers of
| the carefully dressed young man. A
women's tailoring establishment in
Fifth Avenue reports that in the last
two weeks its pressing business has
| grown to four times it's former size.
just because of baggy knees in the
latest style gowns.
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