The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-03-10
MADAM CUSTER IS
BACK FROM MEETING
OF THE DRESSMAKERS
SHE. PREDICTS A REVOLUTION IN
THE STYLES FOR THIS
SEASON.
HAgEM SKIRT The LATEST FAD
Modiste of the Maury Dry Goods Com
pany Declares That Women of the
Cities Are Welcoming the Pantaloon
Skirt-It Is Not Freakish.

Madam Custer has returned from
Chicago where she attended the Ma
tional Dressmakers Convention. Mrs
Custer reports most profitable visit
and says that there is going to be al
most a revolution in styles for wo
mems wear. She is basing her pre-
dictions on the style leaders of Paris
Mrs. Custer was in Chicago at the
time of the demonstration of the new
harem or "skirtaloon" on the streets
OF the city by Miss Nell Curran, pho.
tographs of which have been extern
sively published in the Chicago pa.
pers. Mrs. Custer states that the
women of the cities are welcoming
the new pantaloon skirt and those
that have tried it claim that it is the
/ most comfortable wearing garment
they have ever had on.
In talking Of the new styles in fab
RIGS and trimmings, Mrs. Custer says
that foulards, crepe de chenes, and
those airy, flimsy fabrics will be ex-
tremely popular, and especially will
the marquesettes be modish. The
trimmings are of the beaded effects
nd u,hi
ular.
The Chicago Sunday Examiner has
the following to say of the skirt
aloon:"
This is the first time in the his
tory of woman's fashions that a radi-
cally different style has come to PASS
without being accompanied by any
thing freakish. The new harem skirt
is dignitied, comfortable, conserva-
tive and inconspicuous.
"A well known dressmaker thus de-
scribes the skirtaloon,' which has
dGWnea uron chicago and. acco. Ing
to the dressmaker, 1t is here to stay
Away back In the days before the
war, and well in the recollection of
many Chicagoans, monstrosity
known as the hoop skirt was perpe-
trated upon an unsuspecting public.
And even the middle generation
can recall the time when the hustle
made its appearance. 1t was so large
that shopliftsrs were known to get
away with rocging chairs, wardrobes,
ETC., through it's aid.
Almost ever since the days when
Eve hung out her weeks wash with
two clothes pins, the nature defying,
health destroying wasp waist has been
more or less in vogue. Then there
was the balloon sleeve, quickly follow
ed by the skin tight sleeve that nearly
stopped circulation in the arms, and
one fine day along came the princess
and empire gowns, one of which made
q woman look as though she had been
melted and poured into the gown,
while the other strongly resembled a |
house wrapper.
The next striking departure came
when a fanfure of trumpets announc-
ed the sheath gown, but as it was I'M
necessary to turn in a riot call almost |
every time one appeared on the
streets of American cities, it passed |
away.
Now comes the skirtaloon. No
longer can it be said in jest that
mother wears the trousers for It will
now be hard cold fact. Plainly
steal from the masculine attire, the |,
new garment, it is declared, not only |
allows a woman extreme freedom for |
her feet, but she can now strike a |
match.
Through the courtesy of Mandel
Bros, one of the new gowns was yes
terday displayed, and Miss Nell Cur
ran, 2307 Washington boulevard, pos
ed for photographs. The new gown is
so conservative that it was necessa-
ry to pin back the divided portion Of !
the skirt that it might be distinctly
seen in the photographs.
THE gown worn by Miss Curran is
a creation of Poiret of Paris, and the |
hat is a Lichtenstein model. She de-
clares that the gown is the most intel
ligent fashionable departure in many !
years"