WOMEN'S DRESS APPROVED

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 13, 16 January 1926, Page 15

WOMEN'S DRESS APPROVED

We are told that woman's dresi today is immoral, said an English medical officer, Dr. Savage, of Somerset. I don't know why, but I do know it is healthy. Short skirts that do not pick up the sweepings of the streets, which don't drag on the hips and distort the body, are hygienic, and enable exercise to be taken without fatigue. Open necks and sleeveless arms give an oportunity for the ul-tra-violet rays of the sun to be absorbed. Silk stockings are hygienic, even if some other reason is the object of their use. The tightly-constricted waist, causing permanent deformity, has gone, and the corset with it. Woman has recognised that clothing is a necessary evil, and is doing her best to havo as little of that evil as possible. The open blouse was once called the "penuuionia blouse," but owing to the hardening process caused by the exposure of the skin, is causing no more pneumonia to-day than exists among those who wrap themselves UP-