WOMEN’S DRESS
PRIMATE’S CRITICISM. Received Nov. 19. 11.30 p.m. PARIS, Nov. 19. The Archbishop of Rouen, who is Roman Catholic Primate of Normandy, is responsible £’•'* a vigorous condemnation of the masculine type of sports dress attire, which he declares creates
a false conception of women’s independence. In trying deliberately to attract men by a tawdry make-up ami clinging clothes revealing the body to a shameful degree of indecency, women wore losing all attraction. Mon would not look for wives ami mothers of their children from women of this type. Modern women were defeating their own ends by dressing indecently.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 428, 20 November 1930, Page 4
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99WOMEN’S DRESS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 428, 20 November 1930, Page 4
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