KILLED BY LONG SKIRT
WOMAN WHO DEFIED FASHION. Here is a story of a woman who defied the dictates of fashion and paid for it with her life. Ninety-three years old, Mrs. Jane Matthews, of Camberwell, frowned on all modern fashions. Her family suggested that she might look smarter in a skirt that did not trail on the ground, but she said she was not going to alter her ways for all the fashion dictates in the world." A few days later, at a party, Mrs. Matthews fripped over her long skirt and broke her leg. She died in the hospital the following day. "Sometimes skirts are a bit too long," said the coroner at the inquest when returning a verdict of "Accidental death."
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3445, 19 March 1932, Page 3
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