WOMEN AND DRESS.

Wairarapa Age, 1 March 1927, Page 5

WOMEN AND DRESS.

A BISHOP’S BITTER TIRADE. “NEVER SO DEGRADED.” LONDON, February 27. The Roman Catholic Bishop of Armagh in his Lenten Pastoral says that the first abuse which should be corrected in the Lenten season is woman’s abominable dress. Satan made no mistake in subjecting the fairest of creation to ridicule, sin, and perdition. “It brings a blush to tho cheek to find grave mothers and pious daughters cause scandal in order to present a beautiful appearance. Woman never so degraded herself as in her present costumes, which lower her below the lowest in the human family and suggest the loss of all regard for purity.

“We cannot have a clean race until she is restored to her former dignity. Till then do not let her approach the Holy of Holies.” “A greater cause of anxiety than ball dresses which are immodest suggestive, and an open incentive to passion is the senseless infatuation for the endless excitement of dancing,” says the Catholic Bishop of Londonderry in his Lenten Pastoral. “It is a corrupt plague spreading rapidly and dealing ruin in many homes. Some dances imitate the excited orgies of savages, and are not merely an. incitement to sin but. are so immodest that they cannot be witnessed without sin. Until I see. this danger of corruption ending I forbid priests io promote dances for any purpose.”—(A. and N.Z.).