FASHION AND ITS VICTMIS
CAMPAIGN AGAINST "ERA OP IMMODEST DRESSING."
An appeal is addressed by Miss G. Trenholm, to the fashionable women of New York and other cities to inaugurate an era of modest dressing.. Miss Trenholm declares that the gravest problem confronting the United States is not political corruption, but the extravagance, inefficiency, lack of modesty,, and selfishness of its women and young girls.
"Working girls," she says, "slavishly imitate, to their undoing, the styles of dress set by their fashionable sister*." In her own phrase, there is quite a "subtle poisoning of all our femininity, und it is not working upward from poverty into prosperity, but downward from prosperity into poverty. This subtle poison lies in the fashions adopted by i rich women .and copied by poor girls. Never have American women been so terribly extravagant and so outrageously immodest in dress as this year. " "The dress situation in New York Alls me with horror. Modern society women and girls and working girls all -dress viciously. They would do better to wear trousers than the costumes now previilent." ■
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 109, 24 September 1912, Page 8
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180FASHION AND ITS VICTMIS Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 109, 24 September 1912, Page 8
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