WOMAN’S DRESS APPROVED.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 23 January 1926, Page 15

WOMAN’S DRESS APPROVED.

We are told that woman’s dress today' is immoral, said an English medical officer, Dr Savage, of Somerset. I don’t know why, but I do know itl is healthy. Short skirts that do not pick up the sweepings of the streets, which don’t drag on the liipsi and distort the body, are hygienic, and enable exercise to be taken without fatigue. Open necks and sleeveless arms give an opportunity' for the ultra-violet rays of the sun tio be absorbed. Silk stockings are hygienic, ev.en 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 la a necessary evil, and is doing her best to have as little of that evil as possible. The open blouse was once called the “pneumonia 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. _____