HIGH HEELS AND LOW NECKS
PREVENT ILLNESS. "Far from being deleterious to femi-, nine health, corsets, low-necked gowns, high heels, and thin silk stockings, rouge, and city distractions tend to promote it. That is the opinion of Dr. Copefitnd, Commissioner of Health for New York, based on upwards of 30 years of medical experience. In proof of it Dr. Copeland aligned a formidable array of statistics to prove that 'city women live a good deal longer than do their sisters on the farm — who, in general, perforce forgo these adventitious aids to beauty. As for the supposition of certain savants that thin silk stockings had anything to do with inducting the influenza epidemic, he sends this to join almost every other theory regarding the harmfulness of women's dress. In his. long experience ho has seen all these disquieting theories "thrown upon the dusthcap of discarded medical ideas." "Let us not, therefore," says the Health Commissioner, in giving expression to his conclusions on the subject, "discourage anything With which woman cares to adorn-—or leave unadorned—her charms. It is absurd for us to, urge her to deny herself in this respect on a ridiculous theory which has no base of truth on which to stand."
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Wairarapa Age, 26 March 1920, Page 2
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203HIGH HEELS AND LOW NECKS Wairarapa Age, 26 March 1920, Page 2
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