SHORT SKIRTS AMD MORALS
Sir Malcolm Morris Lad some n.musm°; things to say concerning fashion at the Inlant Welfare Conference in Louden. •Sir- Malcolm said:—"l want to make the standard of health become a question of fashion. You know how strong a factor fashion is in our social life. If you go into the streets to-day you will see your°sisters clothed in garments that are anything- but suitable for an inclement day. Some years ago 1 asked the ladies to take one inch oil their skirts, which about that time fashion decreed, should sweep ihe ground, and thus collect the gerins o£ tuberculo-sKs. I asked' in those days for an inch. Go into the streets n .w and see what they have taken off. An inch!-—many ells. It ia all to the good from a sanitary point of view, but 1 am not quite so si-re that it is from the point of view of modesty."
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Evening Star, Issue 17155, 23 September 1919, Page 9
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156SHORT SKIRTS AMD MORALS Evening Star, Issue 17155, 23 September 1919, Page 9
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