New Britain herald., 1915-10-26
TROUSERS FOR WOMEN.

Having tugged and tussled for lo ! these many years in an attempt to get l the vote, the woman-n have at last de- l cided that if the men will not be so l gallant as to accede to their wishes in l this matter they, the women, will don the trousers and get the vote them selves. To this end the couteriers of Philadelphia and Paris have combined CTS for women Real honest-to-good- ness trousers Think of it! Trousers with pockets on the sides and creases down the front, trousers with peg tops and trousers with cuffs, and trousers that bag at the knees. 1T there ever, was time when it was great to be woman that time is with rs today. Just think. For long cen turies she has striven to be free from the dominant rule of man. And now the time has come when she is going to throw the flowing skirts into the rag bag and don the bifurcated gar ments
 In the end it will not be surprising If the women do not out-trouser the, men. That is, they will set the styles so far ahead that the poor men may be forced to cast aside their trousers altogether and take to some other form of clothing, as, for instance, the kimono or the old form of ators For, listen to this: The women of Philadelphia are going to have trousers for day wear; trousers for dance wear. trousers for boudoir wear and trousers for walking, g,-and the materials will range anywhere from the lacy, racy, frilly, shiny, silky and sat- iny fabrics to the more sombre hues of worsteds and tweeds and serges. And, it is hinted, some of the summer garments ,may even be diaphanous. Whether the women will wear canes with their trousers has not been de- cided
 Dear old Dr. Mary Walker, that sweet demure little women who, since the Civil War has been the only one of her sex allowed to parade the cities of the United States with her high silk hat and her double bow knot and her Prince Albert and her trousers and all that, must be ready now to give up the ghost She has waited a long time for this liberation of her sisters in skirts. It took a special act of Congress 10 grant her permission tc wear mans clothing without being arrested Now the women of Phila delphia arc going to venture forth ir
 broad day light with their hats cas- rakishly over the ears cigarettes joy. ously flung between their fingers, and trousers neatly draped over limbs that show where before there was but tht
 merest suggestion that they were tht possessors of more than pedal extrem l ities Other cities in the United States
 must now wake up and follow Phila- |
 l delphia's lead If the women mus l wear the pants, they might as wei l start in now and have it done with l We humbly bow to their will. As { matter of fact the men of the natiol l will sympathize with them. For, wh' can imagine any joy in trousers? Wh | could ever see any fun in having t ] perambulate before a gazing public ii the hideous garments that men hav been wearing ever since foolish Lon
 don tailor departed from the straigh and narrow path and stopped makin
 knickerbockers. Given a decade i
 which to think it over where is tn
 man who can find one argument il
 favor of trousers? And yet the wo
 men have fallen for them,-th
 trousers. t-