"Four-quarter" Skirt.
LATEST DEVELOPMENT OF THE HAREM FASHION. - An amusing account is given of the “four-quarter” skirt, a development of the harem mode. The wife of a Mexico City importer, who arrived in New York by the liner Prinz Friedrich 'Wilhelm is stated to have worn a four-quarter skirt on several occasions during the voyage, of dark green silk, with knickerbockers of black silk underneath. “The new garment,” says the "Evening Sun,” is like the Directorie skirt, only more so. Instead of being slit c-n one side, it is slit in front, behind, and on both sides. This divides it into quarters and gives an excuse for :'U name. At the bottom the flap* are fastened together. This gives it in a heavy gale the appearance of a ruptured balloon.”
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVI, Issue 7, 16 August 1911, Page 62
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130"Four-quarter" Skirt. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVI, Issue 7, 16 August 1911, Page 62
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