MORE MODEST DRESSES IN AMERICA.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1908, 17 November 1913, Page 3

MORE MODEST DRESSES IN AMERICA.

CAMPAIGN STARTED. BY WOMK.VS TBJIPEH-ANCE UiN lON. .■ - , 'l'lireo hundred thousand women idem' ber-s of tlio Women's Christian Temperance Union, working with many more club women all over, the United States, have started ii, crusade against tho slit skirt and X-ray gown as worn by women iii America/ and hope through their efforts to drivo "ail sucn indecent apparel out of America." • Mrs, Almonii M'Doiiakl, tlie president of tho Ckieags> Association, opened tlio campaign before tho Convention of tlio AV.C.T.U. and asked for tho adoption of a resolution pledging every member to a movement to bring about u reform ill women's fashions, '"Something must bo done," said Mrs. M'Bonald, "to combat tho present- tendency towards indccency in women's clothes. If the present shedding of clothes continues, we need not bo surprised if wo arrive at a period where young girls will parado the streets wearing nothing at all. "Wo have tried in a guiet way through purity leagues to ivtilueiiee women to dress more- modestly, but a five, minutes' walk down any st-reet in Chicago or Now York will convince any-' oins that tho influence of tho purity leagues has not been very far-reaching, So hardened have w« beeomo to the present styles that a' new kindV exposure becomes commonplace, _ A tight skirt .no longer attracts attention, neither does a slit which reveals a girl's anldc. ,A girl must now weav a. dress that exposes her knee or bn.r«s her chest." The resolution asked for was carried j and women Iccfcirers.hrtyo been appoint-, ed to visit various cities nnd stir up tho "highci-minded Women" on tho subject. Appeals will be.made to tho manufacturers of "peekaboo" blouses and modistes who .set tho Styles to rotu.ru to "saner fashions" and abandon the milking of women's clothing which displays the figure.