LADIES’ DRESSES, DUST AND DISEASE.
Recent instructions issued by the chief of the Viennese police have reference to tbeinconvenientlengthof ladies’trains as worn in the streets of the Austrian capital. On general grounds, the public, we may rest assured, will not object to restrictions on these cumbrous and obstructive appendages. Taste, if it bas (as we have always understood) a close connection with neatness, will also be gratified by this protest on behalf of simple dress. Health, which is equally concerned with personal cleanliness, will be sensible of a sanitary gain. But the Austrian police have even more in view. The flowing skirts, they contend, have a possible influence on the spread of contagion by the dust they raise. It is impossible with mathematical accuracy to disprove this possibility, but, surely, here is a case in which overanxiety bred in a germ-haunted mind has usurped the leadership of practical sense. If otherwise, why does not traffic cease in the streets of Vienna, and what calamities may not be looked for when the heedless winds of September will scatter clouds of dust into every coiner of the city ?
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 50, 12 December 1891, Page 688
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186LADIES’ DRESSES, DUST AND DISEASE. New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 50, 12 December 1891, Page 688
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