FREAK DRESSES.
LIMITING THEIR AIRINESS. A MELBOURNE PROPOSAL. (Received 11.15 turn.) MELBOURXE, this day. The City Coun.il contemplates action to check the tendency to frrak dresswearing by women. One councillor stated that female clothinjr was likely to assume rjrealer transparency and airiness, and son .'thing should be done to prevent immndmtv. In the Legislative Council Mr. Manifold, discussing the Crimes Act Amending Bill, introduced an amendment to protectrnen, as had been done , in America^by forbidding the wearing of transparent skirts which showed the whole female lorm and limbs in detail. Women were vk>ing with one another in costume, or want of costume, simply to attract men. There could be no other reason; it was not to attract women.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 278, 21 November 1913, Page 5
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