FREAK DRESSES.
ALARM IN MELBOURNE. CITY COUNCIL CONTEMPLATES ACTION. (By Cable.—Press Association—Copyright.) MELBOURNE, November 21. Tho City Council contemplates taking action to check * the tendency towards freak dress wearing by women. One councillor stated that as female clothing was likely to assume greater transparency and airiness, something should be done to prevent immodesty. In the Legislative Council the Hon. W. S. Manifold, discussing the Crimes Act, said an Amending Bill should be introduced to protect men, as had been done in America, by forbidding the wearing of transparent skirts, which showed the whole female form and limbs*in detail. Women were vicing with one another in costume, or want of costume, simply to attract men. There could bo no other reason. It was not to attract women.
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Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14830, 22 November 1913, Page 11
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