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ANTI-FASHION CRUSADE.

A ONE-PIECE DRESS

The New York women crusaders against “the mad tyranny of fashion and the unhygienic character of the latest styles” in woman’s dress have at last found a proselyte in Mrs Nina Wilcox Putman, a magazine writer of note and wife of the publisher of that name, who is brave enough to act in accordance with her beliefs instead of merely giving literary expression to them. A lew mouths ago, Mrs Putman, who is twenty-three years of age, designed a dress in harmony with the ideas of the crusaders, and she has now written a letter to Miss Ida Tarbell, describing

the social martyrdom she has since suffered.

"In my new dress,” says Mrs Putman, "I am covered from head to foot without the use of the ten to twenty hideous, uncomfortable, and unnecessary garments, and without vulgarising the shapes 0; modern fashions. It is an extremely becoming dress, yet, because it does not conform with the prevailing unhealthy and restricting styles, I am stared at and ■jeered at whenever I appear. "At the opera, where I am surely the most fully covered female present, people gaze at me as if I am a wild animal, and the air resounds with remarks such as ‘How peculiar,’ and ‘How shocking.’ Several dear, prim old ladies have cut my acquaintance because they find my dress indecent. My gentlemen friends have taken me severely to task for being eccentric, though they know that my dress is beneficial to health. Everywhere I am made to feel like a pariah, and am regarded as a curiosity.”

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Bibliographic details
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1014, 24 October 1912, Page 4

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265

ANTI-FASHION CRUSADE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1014, 24 October 1912, Page 4

ANTI-FASHION CRUSADE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1014, 24 October 1912, Page 4

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