THE HAREM SKIRT.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13337, 28 March 1911, Page 2

THE HAREM SKIRT.

DIVERSITY OF OPINION AMONG THE PARIS DRESSMAKERS. PARIS, March 2. One solitary harem skirt made its appearance at the races at Auteuil this afternoon. Elderly ladies, forgetting their dignity, actually ran to sec the graceful mannequin who wore it. Others stood on chairs to get a good view, and photographers, at first nervously and then boldly, snapped the mannequin and her escort throughout their progress. The girl did not show resentment at the stares and remarks she encountered, but just laughed, conscious, no doubt, that she was the most sma.’t'y dressed woman in the paddock. The harem skirt was of royal blue satin. From the front it was absolutely impossible to notice anything but a fairly nose skirt; a long cloak hid the back of ’ue garment, and when later this was lemoved there was the absence of anything suggestive of trousers. Viewed sideways, some four or five inches of stockinged ankle were perceptible. The suggestion of Turkish trousers was heightened by the fact that the skirt was caught up inside near the ankle. It was very pretty-, and its wearer was, beyond doubt, the most striking figure on the racecourse. Mine. Paquin, who naturally speaks with authority, is not making and will not rnu-c the trouser-skirt. At Worth’s, too, tho new idea is not approved. M. Poirotbelieves in tho harem skirt, but says it is only designed for women who can afford to go to the very best bootmakers, and are rich enough to wear precious rings round their ankles. HARRY FURNISS CHAMPIONS NEW FASHION. ' , LONDON, March 25. Mr Harry Furniss, the well-known Punch cartoonist, champions the harem skirt in the Times. He argues that this dress should become a permanent fashion from the point of view of common sense, comfort, and hygiene, and is far preferable to the present microbe-gathering costume.