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August 23, 1855
The Richmond Indiana Palladium
Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana
What is this article about?
A Boston Mail report describes a new Parisian 'self-expanding petticoat' filled with air, imported to New York, alongside the revival of waist-compressing fashions that resemble sugar hogsheads and pose health risks. Warns of their spread to the west.
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A Novelty for the Ladies.
The Boston Mail says--Among the new ideas lately bro't out in Paris is a 'self-expanding petticoat.' It is filled with air, and may be inflated by the wearer. According to the inventor, one of these petticoats will stand out and occupy the room of half a dozen got up on the old fashioned principle.
This fashion has been imported into New York, judging from the appearance of the female figures in the latest fashion plates, and another accompanying it far more objectionable. The fashion-mongers have revived the abominable practice of compressing the waist to the smallest dimensions compatible with breathing at all. The skirt of the dress is distended in every direction, and resembles in size and shape a sugar hogshead. Look out for these fashions in the west. No matter how absurd or ruinous to health a fashion may be, there always will be simpletons enough in every community to copy them.
The Boston Mail says--Among the new ideas lately bro't out in Paris is a 'self-expanding petticoat.' It is filled with air, and may be inflated by the wearer. According to the inventor, one of these petticoats will stand out and occupy the room of half a dozen got up on the old fashioned principle.
This fashion has been imported into New York, judging from the appearance of the female figures in the latest fashion plates, and another accompanying it far more objectionable. The fashion-mongers have revived the abominable practice of compressing the waist to the smallest dimensions compatible with breathing at all. The skirt of the dress is distended in every direction, and resembles in size and shape a sugar hogshead. Look out for these fashions in the west. No matter how absurd or ruinous to health a fashion may be, there always will be simpletons enough in every community to copy them.
What sub-type of article is it?
Curiosity
What themes does it cover?
Social Manners
What keywords are associated?
Fashion Novelty
Self Expanding Petticoat
Paris Invention
New York Fashion
Waist Compression
Health Risks
Where did it happen?
Paris, New York
Story Details
Location
Paris, New York
Story Details
Description of a self-expanding air-filled petticoat invented in Paris, imported to New York, expanding to the size of multiple traditional ones; criticism of accompanying waist compression and distended skirts harmful to health, expected to spread westward.