DRESS AND MORALITY.
"FLIGHT OF THE PETTICOAT.
TIGHTS ON TjSIE STREET.
'Received 10.5 a.m.)
MELBOURNE, this day. The City Council -has adopted a by-law against unprotected hatpins. The discsission was productive of strong comments on women's present mode of dressing. One Councillor declared that it was conducive of pneumonia, and immorality. The good old petticoat had flown, and in two or three years they would have "iris ■walking the streets in tights.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 101, 29 April 1913, Page 5
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72DRESS AND MORALITY. Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 101, 29 April 1913, Page 5
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