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Temuka Leader, Issue 2085, 14 August 1890, Page 3

Oeioun or a Fashion. —A Fashion writer, speaking of the immodest style of fulldresa which was imported from France says that the custom of ladies exhibiting their busts in all the beauty ot nature has a romantic origin. In a battle in which the French were engaged (no date is given) their ranks were broken and they ware rooted. When they retreated, their women bared their breasts and entreated them to pierce them rather than permit them to fall into the bands of the enemy. This was too much for the gallant Gauls. Nerved with fresh courage, they turned, renewed the combat, and were victorious. From that hour Frenchwomen have on festal occasions always been accustomed to wear their dresses low. In |aoj;, wfoen you sea ons who appealed have forgot - ten the qppap pact of her dress, it is no pyoof of indelicacy, but simply an indication of the power of national sentiment. I I've to learn, and this of course satisfactorily explains what I inaiiver-. tently put down tor flu impropriety, or »t least a mistake.