Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-01-28
WHAT WOMEN WEAR.
Their Clothes Have Been Criticised
Since Time Immemorial.


Time, about two thousand years ago:
1.-THE daughters Of Zion are naughty,
and walk with stretched-forth necks.
walking and mincing as they go, and
make tinkling with their feet. The
Lord will take away the bravery of
their ornaments, and their cauls, and
the chains, the bracelets and the muf
flers, the bonnets and the ornaments Of
the legs, and the head-bands, the rings,
the nose jewels, the changeable suit Of
apparel the finc-linens and the
hoods and the veils.''-From Isaiah,
Chapter three.
Time. about one thousand or fifteen
hundred years ago:
in ancient China small round eyes
were liked; and the girls were contin-
ually pluckng their eyebrows that they
might be thin and long.-From "Fe-
male Beauty and Ornament" by Isaac
Disraeli.
Time early eighteenth century:
"The ladies considering that the neck
was a very modest part Of a human
body have freed it from those yokcs,
mean those linen ruffs, in which the
simplicity of their grandmothers had
inclosed it, In proportion as the age
refined, the dress sunk still lower.
Since the female neck thus grows upon
us, and the ladies seem disposed to dis
cover themselves to us more and more,
Will fain have them tell us once for
all how far they intend to go."-Joseph
Addison, English cssayist, July G, 1713,
on 1.-The Extension Of the Female
Neck"
Time, latter part Of eighteenth Gen.
tury:
Most ladies here have two faces;
one face 10 sleep in, and another to
show in company. The first is gener-
ally reserved for the husband and fam
ily ut home; the other she puts on to
please strangers abroad. The family
face is often Indifferent enough; but
the outdoor ones looks something bet
ter; this is always made ut the looking
glass where is settled the complexion
of the day."-From Oliver Goldsmiths
Citizen Of the World"
Time, earlier part Of the nineteenth
century:
"The ladies were dressed in most
rich and gaudy style-bad taste, /
thought 1 will describe one. She had
white dress Of the richest and most
costly material II can't name the ma
,eriaD, over which She wore red scar
let silk velvet jacket coming down TO
her waist and fitting very close. She
had on her head wreaths OF flowers
upon wrcaths OF flowers, and around
her neck profusion of iewery. There
was another with n rcd dress out and
out. but they were al distinguished for
head dresses l saw Langdon Cheavcs
waltZing with one, and ii appeared that
his arm in the whirl Of the waltz had
entirely cncrclcd the slender and deli
! cate waist of the fair lady whom he
seemed to support with his hand. Col
pollution to enter the room where any
ono was suffered to go who would pay
his five dollars. Subscription of ball
in Columbia in letter written by the
Hon. T. +. Perry Of Grccnvllc, after
ward governor, in a letter to his wife,
December C, 1887.
rrinn ptnnnth cpnturV.
1T must have been the same poet
who gave the title full dress to the
half dress now worn by females Of the
! better sort at parties. Already have the
shoulders emerged from their supcrsl-
tious enthrallment and their bold cX-
ample will no doubt be rapidly follow
cd by equally spirited demonstrations
from tho rest Of the body imnolitic." -
James Russell Lowell in his "Convcrsa-
tions on the Poets"
Time, today Newspaper headlines in
various parts Of the country: