Identifier: ArenaMagazine-Volume04 (find matches)
Title: Arena magazine - Volume 04
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: B.O. Flower (ed.)
Subjects: Progressivism -- United States liberalism reformism social reform Christian Socialism Gay 90s political commentary Benjamin Orange Flower Progressive Era social gospel
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of the day attired inthe reigning tie-back, measuring at the hips a little more than double the width ashort distance below the knees. This slave was chained to fashion s column. SISTER SLAVES. You think there is little of kinship between them? Perhaps not in blood, yet theres likeness of soul;And in bondage tis patent to all who have seen them That both are fast held under iron control.The simpering girl, with her airs and her graces, Is sister at heart to the hard-working drudge;Twotvpes of to-dav, as they stand in their places; Whose lot is the sadder 1 leave you to judge. One chained to the block is the victim of Fashion; Her object in life to be perfectly dressed;Too silly for reason, too shallow for passion, She passes her davs neath a tyrants behest.Thus pinioned and fettered, and warily moving, Lest looping should fail her, or band come apart:What room is there left her for thinking or loving? What noble ambition can enter her heart? Digitized by VjOOQIC FASHION S SLAVES. 409
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determination on thepart of its origina-tors to render walk-ing as difficult andfatiguing as possible,while fully exposingthe outline of the( wearers body belowthe waist at everystep. What in 60or 70 would havebeen accounted theheight of indecency,is in the eighties per-fectly proper in thefashionable world.During this time itwas not enough tohave the skirts verynarrow, they must at The tie-backs of 1878 and 1879. every step give the outline of the limbs(or as our Minnesota sol on would putit, nether limbs), hence we find the pull-backs in whicn two shy knees ap)>eared clad in a single trouser. And one, the worn wife of a grizzled oldfarmer;She kneads the great loaves for the < men-folks to eat.In the wheat-fields the green blades are spring-ing like armor;Afar in the forests the flowers are sweet.She lifts not her eyes. Within kitchen wallsnarrowHer life is pent up. The most hopeless ofslaves.Though weary and jaded in sinew and marrow,fcihe never complains. Women rest in theirg

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