Tights for the Million.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVI, Issue II, 12 January 1901, Page 59

Tights for the Million.

Lady Harberton’s views about femL nine dress may be a trifle peculiar, but it is doubtful whether even she is prepared to be quite as "rational” as the medical gentleman who, at the annual meeting of the Rational Dress League the other evening, out-Harbertoned Harberton by practically declaring that the really rational dress for women would be a compromise between that now effected by members of the R.D.L. and tights! The suggestion conjures up strange visions td the mind's eye. One can scarcely imagine the ladies of our acquaintance attending church in a garb that was a cross between tights and bloomers; nor does such a cost time seem precisely suitable for the park or a garden party at Lambeth Palace. Lady Harberton said the other day that men looked askance at the movement of the R.D.L., but I venture to predict that there will be no difficulty whatever in getting them to gaze very earnestly, if Lady Harberton can devise a costume for women on the lines suggested by Dr. O’Connor.