IMMORAL FASHIONS

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 21 December 1926, Page 7

IMMORAL FASHIONS

CRUSADE BY CATHOLIC ORGANISATIONS. (Per Press Association —Copyright). LONDON, December 19. T'lie “Daily Despatch’s” Rome correepemfeiit says a world-wide appeal to men’s Catholic organisations in favour off a> vigorous crusade in the interests of humanity against modern women's imnwal fashions and irreverent manners, was made by the Pope at a great, gathering of men. Hi* 'added that the human body is eacred,, because it is God’s creation and. therefore it sho-uld defend itself against the spirit of irreverence found in. the present fashions, which bear the. seed of countless catastrophes. LONDON, December 19. The Pope’s formal condemnation of women's fashions has been taken up by the- heads of the Roman Catholic Church throughout the world, coincident with his declaration that Roman Catholic men should help in the crusade against immoral fashions. PARIS, December 19.

The Bishop of Bordeaux has ordered little girls to cover their knees, while aaomeH’s skirts must be long enough to prevent any accusations of immodesty. He has forbidden priests to administer CbiMimunion to those disobeying.

LONDON, December-20. : The “Daily News” says the Pope is “suffering from a delusion if he anticiipates permanent or substantial results /from his pronouncement regarding i mnen’s dress. Dictators like Mnsso- : lini, wbo vainly endeavoured to standardise the dress of the colourful Italians, and M. Pangalos, who.sought io adjust the length of . the modern ; Grecian frocks, both failed-. Kemal j Pasha’s decree abolishing th® veil was : obeyed only because it suited-the taste of Turkish women in thee first fiercely joyous pangs ol sex emancipation.

There is nothing irreverent, or immodest in wholesome, healthy feminine modes,” adds the P “Daily News,” “which, according to nwdioaJ testimony, more truly preserve- the sacredness of the human body than ever since fashions began-. Tlie-JMpe might more usefully have appealodl to women to correct the hygienio- defects and deplorable dullness ofi the modern male attire.”