NOT USED TO IT

Auckland Star, Volume x, Issue 2781, 2 April 1879, Page 3

NOT USED TO IT

THE Canadian "Mail" observes, in reference to the order that Canadian ladies, when presented to the Princess Louise, arc to wear low dresses :—ln one conntry it is the fashion to tattoo, in another to wear lings through the nose, in a third full-dress is a mere nomiual addition to Nature's covering of the vital organs, while elsewhere the ladies at the top of society prove their lofty rank by the number of skins they can add to their own. Climate lias much to do with the prevailing fashion in ull latitudes; and the climate of Great Britian is as different from that of Canada as the circumstances and conditions of society in Canada are from those prevailing where CJneen Victoria holds court. Many estimable ladies, wives of our most prominent citizens, have never shown their shoulders in a drawing room ; and nearly all Canadian Indies have reserved for the privacy of their own dressing-rooms such exhibitions of the human form divine as are too often seen at evening parties in London. " One struggle more and lam frne," was the legend under a picture of the belle of the period dressed for a Court ball at Buckingam Palace ; and it was not a caricature. There is something repugnant to many of our ladies in taking the first step to immodesty, and we hold that in all such matters immodesty is a relative term. A man who has never before appeared in anything but trousers would feel uo more astonished and shocked at being told that, he must don kilts than many ladies milfel have been taken aback jwhon they befird they must show to the public gaze charms hitherto reserved from .man's bnse scrutiny.