Arizona republican., 1913-07-28
SLIT SKIRT IS
 SEEN IN TOWN
Young Woman Walks from Ford Hotel Uptown Wearing One of Inter- dicted Garments, Great ing Some Excitement.

Who broke up the band concert"
 The usual crowds that attend the band concert at the Ford hotel in the evenings on Sunday were excited beyond the usual yesterday evening by the appearance of a petite young lady alighting from an automobile, which had quietly driven up in front of the hotel The excitement was occasioned by the fact that one side of the ladies skirt was slit up to the neighborhood of the knee, and for the first time in their lives, many a man and woman was looking at correct presentation of the now fam ous .seezeekneeZee" dress that has been causing all sorts of sensations in the big cities of the north and east, and which but few days ago convulsed blase Los Angeles.
 Look at that" exclaimed one Wo- man, who had turned to see what the crowd was gazing at. The young woman wearing the dress, escorted by a tall young man in white, never stopped however, but kept straight along Washington to Central.
 By this time the crowd was fully on to what was the attraction. and the band concert seemed to have no
 
 piles and pedestrians started along the opposite side of the street from that which the young woman was taking. so as to get good view of the Blossom Browning effect. There was effect there all right
 However for all the following. and looking. the sight was not quite up to the expectation of some of the ha Sf IT there was a sure-e enough slit skirt being worn along the street by a gOod-looking young woman It is true that there were occasional glimpses of ankle and well turned calf, but the display was nothing compared to a street crossing in wet weather. In fact the skirt seemed to be cut so as to conceal more than it displayed, and to leave to the inn aginatiOn the rest.
 The brilliant scarlet plume upon the white Panama hat, and the blue grey of the satin cutaWay coat with the Bulgarian flared trimmings at tracted just as much attention as the other One thing is certain-a slit skirt has been seen by many hundreds of people in full daylight on the streets of Phoenix, and the wind was not blowing either When Miss Beatrice Gonzales (for it was she) reached her destination the crowds wended their way back to the corner of the Ford hotel to take up the delightful band concert where they had left it and enjoy the wonder ful clarinet playing of Dr. Redewin and the bands interpretation of the famous hunting scene.
 During the walk from the Ford to the corner of Adams and First streets nothing was said of police no inter- ference was offered the young lady wearing the novel gown, few remarks were heard other than Gee. there it goes; that's one of those new dress es!" and in spite of the edict the provisions of which were being al- most dared, no arrests were made It all passed off very quietly. con sidering that riots have occurred in other places over just such dresses. But then this is Phoenix.
 Aside from a slight nervousness displayed at the beginning of the test the lady walker went through the ordeal with composure although she expressed pleasure that it was all over and had ended satisfactorily