Immodesty in Dress

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVI, Issue 12, 28 December 1925, Page 5

Immodesty in Dress

American Women’s Fashions A REFORM MOVEMENT. SOCIETY LEADERS’ CAMPAIGN. [By Association —Copyright.] (Received 28, 9.5 a.m.) Washington, Dec. 27. Society leaders, headed by Airs. John Henderson, wife of a former senator and for long influntial in diplomatic and official circles, began a campaign against the present immodest tendencies in the dress habits of American women. The Daughters of the American Revolution, the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, and the National Congress of Parents and Teachers are behind the movement, which has resolved that the best dressed people in England and Fraitfe, as here represented in their embassies, and by the Royal Family in Britain, do not follow fashions dictated by the underworld of Paris. Mrs. Henderson suggests for street wear broader dress skirts and of ankle length ,and prays, in the interest of public health and efficiency, that women should abandon cigarettesmoking. Mrs. Henderson is particularly remembered as having organised a ceremony and invited guests to witness the breaking of bottles of rare vintages from her cellars upon the advent of prohibition.—(A. and N.Z.)