ABSTRACT
The latest occupation for ladies is weaving. Tired of embroidery they crave for some handwork that shall be useful, and catching the enthusiasm at present prevailing for domestic manufacture they have seized upon the loom, and are trying hard to return to the custom of their great-great-great-grandmothers by weaving their own cloth. The Rational Dress Society continues to hammer away at the abuses of fashion. The skirt, made on the Wilson pattern, had no division apparent, but merely showed a series of box pleatings taken from the waist to terminate at the ankle. Love of self-tormenting and a desire to accumulate mud must be inherent in the minds of women who could wear the long, cumbersome skirts imposed by modern fashion.
