WOMEN’S DRESS

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 24, 28 December 1925, Page 7

WOMEN’S DRESS

AGITATION IN AMERICA. FOLLOWING BRITISH STYLE, (By Electric Telegraph.—Cojiyright.) Received December 28, 9.5 a.m. WASHINGTON, Dec. 27. Society leaders, headed by 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 habits of American women. The Daughters of theAmerican 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 bestdressed in England and France, as represented in their embassies, and by the Royal Family in Britain, do not follow fashions in women’s apparel not in good taste, and disregard 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 cigarette smoking. Mrs Henderson is particularly remembered as- having • organised the 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. cable.