'A Reasonably-Dressed Woman.'

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 411, 16 October 1889, Page 6

'A Reasonably- Dressed Woman.'

Mr Horsley, R.A., has been severely condemning the 'atrocities' of feminine fashion. Mr Hirsley, says the ' Hospital,' if you have made up your mind to start a crusade against stupid and ridiculous ladies' fashions, you deserve the pity of all sane men. We speak from experience. We have tried reasoning, pleading, laughing, scolding, but all to no purpose. A fasliionaWe woman is really sublime. Jf a churchsteeple headdress be in fashion to-day, a church -steeple she will have on the top of her head, though she be seven feet high in her stocking soles ; if a wooden biead plate be de rigeur to-morrow, a wooden breadplate must be flattened down on her wondrous skull, even though her height be such that her husband's elbow is beyond her reach. It the doctor has failed, when his discourse has been strengthened by the most harrowing tales of lost health, fainting, sudden death, and we know not what, how may the mere artist hope to succeed ? It is possible, however, that an appeal to the artistic sense may be more powerful than, an appeal to reason or lo\e of life. If a woman can once be made to see that reasonable dress ia more truly beautiful than any other, the' day will be won. • • ,»