SLIT SKIRTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 70, 28 July 1913, Page 5

SLIT SKIRTS.

ARE TflEI INDECENT,

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyrightj [.Sydney Sun*Special Cable.] New York, July 19.

A great nutter has been caused in feminine circles at Richmond, Virginia, over the arrest of a young lady with the name of Blossom Browning, who yesterday sliocked official eyes by appearing in the streets of the city gowned in a slit skirt.

The charge preferred againt her was that of indecent exposure. .Miss Browning was greatly indignant at being taken into custody. The dress, she argued, represented the latest fashion, and as she bought it in a licensed department store, and it suited her taste, she should be allowed to wear it.

"Is there anything indecent in a shapely limb that the Almighty has given me?" demanded the lady, and the officer to whom the question was addressed had to admit that there certainly wasn't. Miss Browning was subsequently brought before the Court, when the hearing of the case provided no small amount of diversion.

The defendant's lawyer argued that the sale of the skirt in a licensed department store permitted the purchaser to wear the garment. The judge, however, couldn't not see that it did. "You may have a license," he said, "for the sale of firearms, but that doesn't authorise you to commit murder." That settled the matter, and Miss Browning was ordered to pay a fine of £5.

"Well," ehe exclaimed in disgust, "I'll just go to New York, where the people are not so prudish," and with that parting shot Blossom, with her slit skirt still on. emitted the Coui't.