Every
maiden whom we meet
On
a busy city street,
Midst
the hurry and the whirl,
Is
a Fluffy Ruffles girl.
Fluffy
is all right, no doubt;
She
the latest maiden out;
But
how good ‘twould seem to see,
One
dressed as she used to be!
Nov.
2, ‘07
Who Was Fluffy
Ruffles?
She was all the rage in 1907–1908. Young women
wanted to dress like her, musicians of the day composed songs about her and
there was even a Broadway musical about her adventures.
Fluffy Ruffles was a newspaper comic strip — “the
first continued cartoon story,” according to Ernest Watson in his 1946 book, “40
Illustrators and How They Work.” The illustrator was Wallace Morgan, who
would later sketch battlefields in World War I. He drew Fluffy Ruffles for the
New York Herald. Carolyn Wells, a poet and writer, came up with the idea for
the strip and created Fluffy’s story in light verse. The illustrations and
verse took up a full page in the Herald’s Sunday magazine section, starting
roughly in April 1907.
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