DRESS REFORM

Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 551, 28 December 1925, Page 5

DRESS REFORM

DOWN TO THE ANKLES AMERICAN AGITATION. By Telegraph—Press-Assn-'-Copyright (A ost. and N.Z. Cab lah (Received December 28, 9:30 a/.m-) Wasbington, December) 27. Society leaders, headed by' Mrs John Henderson,, wife of a former Senator and fo r long influential in diplomatic and official circles, have began a campaign against present immodest tendencies in the dross habits of American women. The order of the Daughter of the American Revolution, the General Federation of Women’s (Tubs, and the National Congress of Parents and Teachers are behind • the movement, which has resolved that’ the best dressed women in England and France, as in America, were represented in their embassies and by the Royal family in Britain, who do not follow the fashions in women’s apparel -that, are not in good taste. They disregard the -fashions dictated by the underworld of Paris. Mrs Henderson suggests for street wear broader dress skirts and of ankle length and her. petition prays, in the interest of public health and efficiency, that women should abandon cigarette smoking.