WOMEN AND DRESS.
I MODERN RUBBER BELTS. j DOCTOR'S CONDEMNATION. LONDON. Dec. .9. Sir Hairy Porter, a well-known j surgeon, speaking in London, said that I fashion conferred a boon upon young i women by abolishinggthc tight-waisted j Victorian corsets, but that the appalling, more modern rubber belts, which gave lan unnatural, boyish figure, and prevented the expansion of the hips essential to happy motherhood, constituted a national danger.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18897, 20 December 1924, Page 11
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