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DRESS AND MORALS.

LAW AGAINST SLASHED SKIRTS AND GAUZE STOCKINGS. Amusing accounts arc furnished in the American newspapers of the embarrassment caused policemen in the town of Rochester by an ordinance enacted in tJio middle of- June authorising the Morals Efficiency Committee to prohibit from tho streets all slashed skirts, gauze hosiery, and "pneumonia blouses." Several women were stopped by officers of the !.aw, who addressed them in the stereotyped phrase, "I am very sorry, madam, but. [ am-compelled by the Morals Efficiency Committee to place you under arrest unless you will agree to return tn your homo aud chango your modo of dress." Several women, after cheeking a tendency to faint, asked indignantly, "What have I done?" "You are not properly dressed," was tlio policeman's invariable reply. They all, says ,a telegram to tho Nev, : York "World," eventually went lumie, though powerful persuasion was needed ill one or two case?. The committee, according to . tho "World," are now engaged in classifying wearing apparel for wnnicn under tlio hidings, 'Termissiblo" and "Undesirable."

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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1815, 30 July 1913, Page 14

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171

DRESS AND MORALS. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1815, 30 July 1913, Page 14

DRESS AND MORALS. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1815, 30 July 1913, Page 14

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