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HAREM SKIRTS.

DEFENDED BY A DOCTOR. The harem skirt still occupies a prominent place in public affairs. Three young women, wearing harem skirts, nearly created a riot in NewYork one night, and the intervention of the police was necessary to restore order. Americans had heard about the harem skirts and there is just enough of the old Puritanical sentiment alive there to prevent them from becoming* fashionable. It is not known whether the audacious trio were walking advertisements lor a Broadway theatre, or models of an adventurous New York modiste; but it is certain that as soon as they appeared in the open street they created e lively demonstration of disapproval. “Here they come; there they go!” b->ys shouted, and very soon the three young women, all of whom were very pretty, with peroxide blonde hair, were surrounded. They first appeared at Fifty-ninth-street and Fifth-avenue, and had not proceeeded far before a proics-icn formed behind them, which grew and grew like a rolling snowball. They iinallv managed to reach Fifty-fifth-street. where they were hustled, breathless, into another taxi-cab, with cries of “Go home!”

A lady who, having booked a seat at the Imperial Opera. St. Petersburg, came attired in a harem skirt, was refused admittance.

Even the medical faculty must have its say on the harem skirt. The ruieslion was mooted at a meeting of the French Academy, where Dr. Berg, a Swedish practitioner, undertook to praise the new fashion. He astonished the scientific assembly by declaring bluntly

“The harem skirt has its advantages It is an ideal garment for women. It is doubly practical because it protects the body from cold and allows free motion to the limbs. It is also a defence against dust and microbes that float in the air. Numbers of women have been drowned because their movements in tbo water were hampered by skirits. ethers were burnt on account of their flowing robes, and the harem skirt wards of all these dangers.” Half a dozen savants were at once oil their leet to combat this revolutionary doctrine. Professor Debove declared :— ‘‘Trousers are for men, skirts are for women, and that is the end of it,” a pragmatic utterance which was cheered to the echo by most of his colleagues.

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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 115, 29 April 1911, Page 2 (Supplement)

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HAREM SKIRTS. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 115, 29 April 1911, Page 2 (Supplement)

HAREM SKIRTS. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 115, 29 April 1911, Page 2 (Supplement)

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