WESTERN FASHIONS.
ASSUMPTION BY CHINESE. FROWNED ON BY AUTHORITIES. Received September 5, 10.30 a.m. HONG KONG, Sept. 4. In accordance with official efforts to check the spread of modern fashions among Chinese women, who recently were forbidden to wear costumes revealing their figures, police dragged many fashionable Canton women from rickshaws and took them to police stations, and warned them against a repetition of the offence. The police also raided modistes’ premises and seized 300 modern dresses.
All who wave or shingle their hair will be arrested.
Marshal Chiaiig Kai-shek recently forbade “flappers” to wear split skirts, 6moke in the streets, or use lipstick, and also regulated the length of dresses.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 238, 5 September 1935, Page 7
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