FOR THE LADIES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 700, 20 May 1879, Page 2

FOR THE LADIES.

The late inclement weather (says an English contemporary) has roused attention to many weak points m our management of ourselves and methods of protectiong against cold. The following remarks recently offered by Dr. Fothergill, of London, m a letter to an American paper, are instructive, on the matter of clothing :— " Many poor people," he says, "cannot get proper underclothing, but many there are who can purchase proper materials, bub who do not. Especially is this true, of women, numbers of whom have only a cotton chemise under their corset, even m the coldest weather. It is scarcely possible to write dispassionately about female underclothing, or rather the want of it. I often study the shop windows where female underclothing is sold, and contrast them with gentlemen's hosiers, whose windows are crammed with merino vests and drawers, flannel shirts, and the female, shop windows being hung with linen and cotton vestments only. Why m the name of common sense don't women wear a wollen outer skin m winter as well as men ? Above the corset there is frequently nothing but a frilled chemise under the gown, and not one single scrap of flannel. The chest walls of women are not generally very thick over the subclavioular region, and the low external temperature must affect the apices of the lungs and cause vascular disturbances m them, resulting often m disease. Moreover, no amount of external garments will compensate for the lack of sufficient under-clothing;"