The Transparent Blouse.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 221, 4 January 1909, Page 5

The Transparent Blouse.

Dbwming Uie dress of business girls a writer in the Girls' Own l'apcr owl Women's Mogaxire says:"I must allude to a style of dress that is far more objectionnbtc thsn anything I have incnl ionrd so far, and that is tbc transparent blouse, which permit* the onlooker to study the cut and make of the girl's underwear. Of course this style of bl«use is by no means peculiar to the office girl; it is worn by girls and women of all grades of soccity—and all of them vulgar. To speak quite plainly: Is it nice or refined for a girl to give opportunity to all and sundry who may come into her office—possibly men for the most part, and not necessarily all gentlemen at that—to study the trimming of her underwear, which she has emphasised by adding colored ribbons that specially attract the eye when white might past unnoticed. The girl who dresses in this way is fast losing one of the greatest assets and charms of her girlhood—her personal reticence. Men have a saying among themselves which it would be well to bear in mind: "The thinner the blouse, the commoner the girl.' And the most hardened men of the world will denounce the way girls appear in offices and public vehicles in these vulgarly suggestive gar ments."