page_title: Train (clothing)
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Train (clothing) / History
caption_attribution_description: English: "The Trailing Skirt - Death Loves a Shining Mark." American satirical cartoon featuring the Grim Reaper following a maid brushing off a fashionable trailing skirt. The skirt, hung on a rack, is shown as a carrier of germs and microbes, including those causing typhoid fever, consumption, influenza. First published in Puck, August 8, 1900.
context_page_description: In clothing, a train describes the long back portion of a robe, cloak, skirt, overskirt, or dress that trails behind the wearer.
  It is a common part of ceremonial robes in academic dress, court dress or court uniform. It is also a common part of a woman's formal evening gowns or wedding dresses.
context_section_description: Trains declined in popularity in the late nineteenth century when they were targeted by public health campaigns in Europe and the United States that argued they brought germs from the streets into the wearers' homes. The issue was the subject of a cartoon published in Puck in 1900 entitled  "The Trailing Skirt: Death Loves a Shining Mark."
caption: Cartoon showing how trailing skirts can transmit diseases. Published in Puck, August 8, 1900.
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