No. 194
Crime, Eccentricity, and the Sporting Life in 19th Century America.
March 11, 2014

Unmindful of their Attire.

A Fire in the Chicago Opera House creates a stampede among pretty actresses who rush to the street dishabille.
March 11, 2014
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Tag: Fashion

Her Striped Stockings.

Bound to be in style - The expedient of a carriage painter's daughter at Vallejo, Cal., to obtain striped stockings.

11/30/2021

Fashion's Fillies.

A Fancy For Horse-Show Week.

2/25/2019

Too Mild a Description.

It is more than simple, my dear. It is idiotic.

10/9/2017

Disguising Nature.

Society’s male darlings “making up” their faces for the purpose of “looking pretty” to their addlepated female counterparts; Saratoga, N. Y.

5/29/2017

The Graces in a High Wind.

A scene taken from nature, in Kensington Gardens.

5/8/2017

Chicago’s Latest Craze.

Every Garden City belle wants to have her hair cut like a little man’s.

4/24/2017

December 1860.

Styles for the Month.

12/5/2016

A New Wrinkle.

How the fashionable women of “sawciety” get their complexions whit the assistance of a hypodermic injection.

12/14/2015

Her Last Quadrille.

The bursting of an artery due to tight lacing causes the death of Miss Mary Crawford of Detroit, Mich.

12/1/2015

The Cruelties of Fashion.

“Who is killing all the beautiful blue breasts, and green breasts, and purple breasts, and gold breasts. Add the gorgeously-feathered songsters of groves in every clime?”

10/12/2015

Beautiful Forever.

7/29/2014

Society Unveiled.

2/3/2014

The Tyranny of Fashion.

6/25/2013

New York Society Classified.

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Unmindful of their Attire.

unmindful of their attire

A Fire in the Chicago Opera House creates a stampede among pretty actresses who rush to the street dishabille.

The Chicago Opera House was damaged by fire on Wednesday evening. At the time the alarm was given the members of the McCaull Company were in the dressing rooms doffing their stage clothes and donning street attire. The cry of fire so excited the chorus girls that they rushed from the building into the street, many unmindful of their attire. Bolossy Kiralfy had a quantity of scenery and wardrobe for the production of “The Water Queen” in the building, but fortunately, it was not damaged.


The National Police Gazette, December 29, 1888.