Word: skirted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...deep bass voice; the third was clothed in the sober garb of a middle-aged matron, but had refused to sacrifice his mustache, and the last represented a prim and dignified spinster, but was betrayed by the vigor and pathos of his profanity when a brother stepped on his skirt. The other members of the class wore long muslin gowns and high silk hats, on the front of which their class year, 1885, was inscribed, while the back was covered with Greek mottoes and unsolved quadratic equations, thus heaping contumely upon Legendre. Invited guests from the other classes were present...
Some students at Exeter climbed eighty feet to the dome of the town hall, and dressed the Goddess of Justice in an old red skirt after the style of a Modoc squaw. The authorities had a hard time in getting the goddess right again...
...sermon preached at Whitehall a reference to "the French, the Spanish and the Polish fashions of giddy women." But really the ladies' dress of today is the very opposite of extravagant when compared with that of comparatively recent times. The "pull-back" is just as modest as the hoop-skirt, and as to those much-abused bangs it has always been a mystery to me what the average male intellect could see so utterly soul-destroying in a very becoming mode of dressing the hair. But you know that a certain minister went so far as to forbid the young...
...attend to it, they went up to the drawing-room. There they found Asphyxia and two of her friends who were to pour out tea for the company and attend to the masculine "small-fry" who might be present. Asphyxia was dressed in a saffron colored cashmere. The skirt was perfectly plain and fell in natural folds to within six inches of the ground; her feet and ankles coming into prominence thereby, were encased in low shoes and yellow stockings which were within a shade or two of the color of her dress. The waist of this costume...
...Butterfield and her younger brother, at the respective ages of ten and six, hangs over the mantel-piece. Mrs. Butterfield is represented in low neck and short sleeves, with one hand sliding from her brother's shoulder, and the other, abnormally developed, hanging almost to the hem of her skirt. Both figures look unsteady and unhappy, as though they had been trying to see which could hold its breath longest and were both about ready to give...