AGAINST IMMODESTY

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 28 December 1925, Page 5

AGAINST IMMODESTY

AMERICAN WOMEN’S CAMPAIGN

PARIS FASHIONS CONDEMNED

EXAMPLE OF BRITISH ROYALTY

BY CABLE—PRE3S ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received Dec. 28, 10.25 a.m. WASHINGTON, Dee. 27.

Society leaders,. headed bv Mrs John Henderson, wife of a former senator, and for long influential in diplomatic and official circles, have begun a campaign against the present immodest tendencies in the dress and habits of A merica n women.

The Daughters of the American Revolution. the General Federation of Women’s Cubs, and the National Congress of Parents and Teachers are bell ind the movement, which has resolved that the best-dressed women in England and France, as here represented in their embassies and by the Royal Family in Britain, do not follow fashions in women’s apparel that .are not in good taste, and disregard fashions dictated by the underworld of Paris.

Mrs Henderson' suggests for street w.'ar a broader dress, with skirts of ankle ’ength, and prays, in the interests of public health and efficiency, that women should abandon cigarette smoking. Mrs Henderson is particularly remembered as having organised the ceremony—and invited guests to witness it—of breaking bottles of rare vintages from her cellars upon the advent of prohibition.