WOMEN'S DRESS.
preva;cling FASHIONS ' CONDEMNED. ■'. ~
(Received March 5,'5 9.15 5a.m.) MELBOURNE* March 5.
The Au3tralian Women's Conference has resolved that all members of the association shall refrain from wearing the prevailing fashion of indecorous attire.The mover, in a warm condemnation of the prevailing fashions, &aid it was dreadful.to see in-trams .and trains women who had lost all sense of' decency and modesty. She was surprised that the Government had not taken action. If the unfortunate class? of Avoinen wore such ootMimes the police would arrest them. It Avas degrading to respectable women.to see others Avearing insufficient clothing to cover the body. - .She sfl-Ay a window display of Tango underskirts being' vieAved by more men than Avonien. A delegate interjected: "Like their cheeki"
Another speaker urged women to talsie action to prevent such displays of indecency. THiey Avcro shocking and disgraceful.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 6 March 1914, Page 5
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140WOMEN'S DRESS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 6 March 1914, Page 5
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