WOMEN'S DRESS TO THE EDITOR.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 71, 25 March 1914, Page 9

WOMEN'S DRESS TO THE EDITOR.

. Sir,— Why all this fuss about the varying fashions of the period ? Sileh an outcry about the scanty clothing worn, by our girls— scathing words of disapproval are given in full, and numbers of men — wise and otherwise — give their ponderous suggestions re improvements in women's attire. It is strange that it is always men who are quoted as nagging at the ladies' garments. Women- don't take the least notice. Why should they? They just go on dressing to please themselves. Now, I hold that the fashions of the present day are a vast improvement on previous styles. It is not the so-called scantiness of the present attire that is to blame j there is no blame in it, anyway ; but the fact is women and girls in the past have worn too much clothes. Now that they are wearing more practical, economical, and beautiful dress, our old-fashioned citizens are shocked, horrified, ashamed ; they can't find words strong enough (and still printable) to express their feelings. They* say they show every line of the figure. How shocking ! 'Now, take a straight, honest view of the question, and anyone who can look back on the ever-varying "fashions of, say, the last _ fifty or sixty years, any sensible, unbiassed critic — of course, that's you and I—will1 — will agree that the present dress is a vast improvement on anything that, has preceded it.— i am, etc.,

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