WHY GIRLS ARE UNHEALTHY.
FLIMSY FASHION PERILS. The flimsy garb of girls spells peril to tb*- human race, according to Dr Clara S-eipoi. a women’s specialist in Chicago. She declares that the sturdy typer of womanhood is becoming extinct. an! a frail, scrawny spocies is in process of -evolution. “ Short skirts are the present expression of extreme dress which started some years ago a,nd resulted in the immaturity of the sex of the present generation,” says Dr Seipel. “ There is no doubt that the girl of to-day is not as well developed as the one of twenty years ago. ” Now we have the girl of straight lines, not the well-proportioned girl of yesteryear. “ Tho girl of to-day, in thin silk hose, short skirts, and satin pumps, has no protection against the cold. She may as well wear nothing from the knee down. “ This causes tho body to become frail, as tlie bodily heat so necessary' to proper development is dissipated. A decade ago girls were muffled from ears to feet as men still are.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16737, 19 May 1922, Page 11
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