DO WOMEN DRESS TO PLEASE MEN?

Otago Witness, Issue 2623, 22 June 1904, Page 67

DO WOMEN DRESS TO PLEASE MEN?

Many well-known women wiiters and artists give their views on this question. Mrs Jopling, the well-known painter, does not think that women do dress to please men. They dress for each other : "It interests them, ~and they know more about it than men. Man, whsn he admires a woman, never even looks at her dress. He feels drawn towaids her personality. The things that strike him are the tones of her voice, the look of her eyes. I know many husbands who never notice what their wives wear."

Miss Lillias Campbell Davidson is of the same opinion : "Most women who know the world will agree with me that as a, sex we' don" b dress to court the approval of men, but to escape the criticisims of our own sister women !"

31rs Campbell Praed says, that naturally and rightly a nice woman likes io look her best Ihab &he may please the man or men belonging to her ; but if she had none at all belonging to her she would stiil clothe herself daintily on account of the personal satisfaction it affords her : — "The matter is one of principle, upbringing, Mid of the fitness of things. Dress should form a part of the whole. It is an unconscious expression of character and personality ; and these are at once vu I gari c 'ed by ths rn<?re suggestion that she should deck heiself in fine gaiments in order to draw down indiscriminate admiration. Briefly, I do not think the highest type of woman dresses to please

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