“FROCK-SHOCK” IN SYDNEY.

Shannon News, 17 February 1922, Page 4

“FROCK-SHOCK” IN SYDNEY.

WOMEN’S SCANTY DRESSING

Sydney, January 31

“Frock-shock” is the new term which * lias just been coined during a discus-1 sion among some well known Sydney women to describe the effect brought about by the scanty dressing of women. The president of the W.C.T.U. of New South Wales, Mrs C. Forsyth, stated that the neat short skirt, about six to ten inches off the ground, the semi-loose coat frock, or one-piece dress, the collarless neck, and the hail or three-quarter length sleeve were not only comfortable for work or pleasure, but were also attractive. No woman would willingly go back to the wasp waist, the long trailing and very wide skirts, the high bone collars and long tight sleeves, especially in summer. The present fashion was a good/ one. It was the exaggeration that should be deplored. The short skirt had become too short, and the low neck was not only immodest, but slovenly. Those girls who wore .transparent dresses either lacked a sense of decency or did not care how they looked. Not only girls, but many older women—some of them mothers and grandmothers—were often the worst offenders.

Mrs Forsyth also; deplored the high heel as a menace to health and safety, and stated that it should be condemned, if not entirely forbidden.