Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-05-26
THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND
AND HORBLE SKIRTS


The long looked for coronation of Kins
George and Queen Mary of England is al
most at hand. Over there royalty sets
the fashion in hats, in low-necked frockE
and women's clothes-maybe as to mems
breeches-and garters.
The hobble skirts are not attractive t.
Queen Mary, so she has given orders thai
the hobbled women can't come in. But
there are some royalties who feel as big
as Queen Mary thinks she is big. They
aim to wear hobbies to show who's who
and what's what! If these big visitors
are denied admission, then Europe viii
pitch into war and then the mischief will
he to pay!
It's Tree fight, so far as I am con.
cerned' but 1t means an immense deal tc
our parvenu Americans who live. move
and only enjoy being under the shadow OF
the throne with a titled name. / think
queen Mary is sensible. If any woman
wants to tie her lower limbs together
unEll she can only mince in her steps
tano maybe fall down and break her false
teeth loose), / say with Queen Mary she
has no business in that coronation crowd
Let her parade in Central park or Hyde
park. or any other Vanity Fair parade
WITHIN reach, but the woman who at
tempts to show her entire form below
her hips and has to tie her ankles to-
gether to do 1t, should not be allowed tc
throw the coronation parade into con-
FUSION. / watched a young woman in
Atlanta who looked like her meal-bae
skirt had to be tackled together after il
was put on her. it was so tight in the
back and about the knees, and l wonder
ed what there was in a hobble skirt to
commend 1t. 1t might do for a Hotten-
tot, where clothes can not embarrass
their limbs below their hips, for they are
agin en-" anyhow; or it might do in
Eskimo land, where skins are hard tc
sew and very hard to pleat and gather
but why a white-skinned American WON
an should not only disfigure herself but
impede and retard her very movements
with meal-bag skirt, tight before and
tight behind, until she walks like pout-
er pigeon and looks like one, with a sup
erfiuity of bosom and meagre tight leg
gings, passes my understanding.
I have seen the vagaries of fashion fol
nearly three-fourths of a century, but
take my stand here to say hobble skirts
are the limit!
When the men put a little more cloth
in their pants, and the women slximp q
little more cloth out of their frock skirts
we will not know (which from tother,
except for the hats and bonnets
I can see nothing graceful, convenient
or appropriate in these skirts. 1t looks
very much to me as if the manufacturers
had lot of left overs and concluded to
make two skirts out of one, depending or
the fool women to spend their money foI
them.
They wear such high-heeled shoes that
they tilt forward as they walk, and heav-
en- only knows where the strain and
injury begins or ends with women kind
thus tilted and strained-and instead OF
wearing skirts loose enough to relieve the
painful enxiety of lockers on, they actu-
ally draw in their skirts until they look
like single stem clothes horse with one
slim uprig.-. and two broad pieces to rest
upon.
But what they lack below stairs they
pile on above. The bust is puffed out
like small barrel, and some of the hats
are as big around as my modist umbrel-
la. My own sex are mystery to me.