RATIONAL DRESS FOR WOMEN

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 40, 15 August 1925, Page 11

RATIONAL DRESS FOR WOMEN

Rational dress for women, whether for walking or for sport, has received the seal of approval in high quarters recently (writes the London correspondent of the Melbourne Age"). At the congress of the Royal Institute of Public Health. Dr. Peroy Hall went all out in its favour. "Never," he say 3, "has the gentle sex been so healthy nor so attractive as it is to-day. A generation ago the woman of I forty was'an old lady who wore voluminous flannel petticoats and a shawl across her shoulders, while slio sat by the firo and crocheted. To-day the woman of forty looks twenty, plays golf and tennis during the day, and jazzos far into the night, and then is first down to breakfast in tho morning—and without the temper of a bear. She is emancipated both in body and mind, and appears lo have oaptured tho Teritable elixir of eternal' youth. What lias she- done? Simply cast away those superfluous clothes, and is wearing silk next her skin, short skirts, and clothing luw in the neck, allowing more light and air to get to hor body, aud as a direct consequence has achieved youth, beauty, and health."