THE HAREM SKIRT.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXII, Issue 15557, 6 March 1911, Page 7

THE HAREM SKIRT.

A RIOT IN LIVERPOOL

United Press Association —By Eleotrio Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, March 3

A crowd of 20,000 persons in Liverpool mobbed a lady who was wearing the harem skin, (The harem skirt is the successor to the hobble skirt. A new form of divided skirt, to come into fashion in the spring, is (writes the Paris correspondent of the “Daily Express”) to oe launched into notoriety by the “ mannosquine ” cf a well-known dressmaking firm cf the Faubourg St Tlonore. The new costume comes from Turkey and is an almost exact reproduction of the dress worn by the harem ladies. It consists of a long, loose divided skirt, fitting tightly at each ankle. Early in the present year M. Paul Poiret made a very strenuous effort to popularise the garment as a conventional costume for women and achieved a certain -measure of success. “ This is a long-cherished ambition of mine,” ho said. “ The hobble skirt has had its day and my clients are tiring of the ungainly gait which it makes obligatory. The Turkish ladies’ costume has long appealed to mo as being most sensible, hygienic and graceful. Moreover, it complies perfectly with the present-day craze for skirts which are tight at the ankles, only instead of having her movements impeded by a single skirt woman is to have a skirt t-o each ankle. Of course, petticoats will not be worn. Indeed, to my mind, the petticoat is doomed. The new costume will be made in each case to the requirements of the wearer, and the division can be made either high or low, as desired. I am not introducing the garment solely as a walking costume. i intend to make the new creation as artistic and stylish as anything I have ever created. As a walking costume it will, of course, be unrivalled for comfort and elegance. For sports and gymnastics it will fulfil to perfection tile requirements of the athletic girl. At races and the theatre I hope it will appear in its most .-esthetic form. Certainly it will add to the charm and beauty of the feminine figure as no other mode has done. How will Parisiennes accept the novelty? Ah, that is the question.”)