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Downfall of Hoops

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 12, 1864

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 24, No. 7.

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Downfall of Hoops.

Our lady readers will receive with surprise the news that the day of hoops is past. The Empress Eugenie inaugurated the movement, and of course all the female world follow suit. Already the most distinguished and fashionable ladies of New York have appeared upon the street without hoops, and have everywhere elicited admiration at the grace and beauty of their attire, and wonderment how such ungainly articles could ever have been tolerated. We state the above on the authority of the N. Y. Ledger in an editorial. We suppose however, we must ‘wait for the wagon’ a year or two longer, before the fashion reaches this part of the country.—Sel.