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Costumes for Women Cyclers.Cycling »mM(f women has become so pro-rabtt. that (ho spectacle of a gay and foe live wheel woman n-. longer excite* comment.All kinds of skirt* hare been tried andSHOWlSO BDHJMBlOt IS Vl'tL. fonnd wsotio*. This is partly the fault of tbe wheel. In moat of th* models the space between the saddle and baudlr bar ia •.» dose that it makoa difficult mounting, especially if the ■Jrirt# are a little full. Ajjaiu, tbe skiru have a way ..1 Batting tangled up in the pedals or dapping with tno wmd on one side or the othor.The French women ha*lt;* adopted bloomers, and oalt;'h particular rider has seemed to follow her own dictates, as the phases of st^le are as many as the individualSo far in America but few ricL-rs ha*e oomeoat in bloomers. One woman who ha«, when asked to tell hor experience, ■aid: 1 have been a rider for a number of years, and from practical experience hare found that skirts interfered with riding. On several different occasion* I have been thrown from my wheel by my skirts catching In the pedal or under foot, and I have found that in riding up hill or in touring long distances whan there was ( any wind blowing I was soon exhausted, and it required a great deal of hard work to keep an average speed. r have exhausted the cembt of fashion in skirts.I have bought and worn at least a dozen d liferent land. While some poewssed advantages, thsy were in no wise perfectMoVXTKB.and all of them had the one bad fault of ast-ing as a aul, resisting th# winJ and preventing tbo free use of my limbe.The suits are mailo just like the men's bloomef, exoept that they button oa the aide and are much fuller. They fasten at the knee and fall over about two inches. The coat is eingfs-brvasred, made man faabion. tocwe and easy fittinir. Tbs eating ahiit and yachting oap match. tha cloth being bine cheriot : leggings reaching to tbe knees ere of soft glove stock and match the suede shoe*. —•‘New York Iteoor.lev.
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Kerang Times
Kerang, Victoria, AU
Fri, Jan 12, 1894
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