A BAR TO PURITY.
PRESENT-DAY DRESS. i ("Timea"-Sydney "Sun" Special C*bl«.) (Received January 23rd, 6.5 p.m.) LONDON. January 22. At a meeting of men in the Queen's Hall to promote purity in thought and deed. Prebendary Webster urged the necessity of an alteration in presentday dress. He hardly knew what to do sometimes when he found himself m an omnibus opposite some Jady >wfco wore an open dress. It waa moat disturbing, and sowed the seeds of passion in men. It was not right that when walking through pubKo streets and riding in .publio conveyances, men should be exposed to those unseemly exposures.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14883, 24 January 1914, Page 11
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