Fall of the Bustle.
You ask me if the hump on the bsck of dresses has really totally disappeared. Well, dear, not quite”; but I am thankful to say that it is fast diminishing, and will soon have completely vanished. There are no more steels in the best-made dresses. If you want to be in the very height of the mode take out all your steels, though you must remember to tie back your dresses just as though the steels were still in them. Wear one of tho very smallest cushions of braided wire that you can get, and then you may indulge in the proud assurance that your appearance is quite correct. The middleclass girls are still wearing steels and huge cushions at the back. So do all the third-rate people ; and, what is more, they would laugh us to scorn if we were to tell them that the protuberance caused by these very uncomfortable devices is no longer fashionable. The sort of person who loves exaggeration in dress always clings fondly to absurdities and eccentricities, seeing in them their only chance to be what they call “stylish.” Do not forget when you are taking out your steels that you must shorten your dress at least a couple of inches at the back, as the steels take it up quite as much as that.—‘Truth.’
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Evening Star, Issue 7416, 11 January 1888, Page 3
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225Fall of the Bustle. Evening Star, Issue 7416, 11 January 1888, Page 3
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