THE HOBBLE SKIRT.
. I - 'JJ_ —' .Can anyone doubt, asks a writer in a French newspaper,' that tho Indies of Jerusalem in Biblical times were impeded in their' walk like the Indies of to-day. lii tho latter part of tho third chapter of tho Prophecy of Isaiah, says the writer, wo get a glimpse of how these (laughters of Zion dressed oil gala occasions. Wo •learn from a passage in the Talmud that the robos of the ladies wcro so tight that they could only walk with short steps, liy this moans a greater opportunity was afforded to their admirers to observe them. ' The suggestion evidently is that tho hobble skirt was in vogue in very fi)r-away times.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1034, 25 January 1911, Page 11
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117THE HOBBLE SKIRT. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1034, 25 January 1911, Page 11
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