BLOOMERS WITH DISCRETION.
The Rational Dress Leaguers have need for much patience and discretion. We advisedly omit enthusiasm, for enthusiasm often does as much harm as good. It is enthusiasm, and alas, that so nobl© a Quality should sometimes be so harmful, that will lead a fair enthusiast to do.n the bloomer costume when it Is most decidedly unbecoming; when, for example, nature has been too generous, and the rounded curves, hardly seen in ordinary attire, attract all eyes when displayed in rational dress. It is distressing and unjust, but till a woman in knickers is a comon street sigit we think enthusiasm should be tempered by discretion. The public will have nothing forced upbn it, and although we all know the public is a 'hass,' still it is public opinion that rules, even in matters of dress.—'Rational Dress Gazette.'
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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 76, 1 April 1899, Page 5 (Supplement)
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