MODESTY IN CHINA.

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19900, 1 June 1936, Page 9

MODESTY IN CHINA.

WESTERN FASHIONS BANNED. AN OFFICIAL EDICT. ’ LONDON, May 6. While London women, influenced by the recent Chinese Art Exhibition at Burlington. House, are imlialins Chinese fashions, hundreds of girls in Canton are threatened with imprisonment for wearing European styles or foreign textiles, says the Canton correspondent of the Daily Express. All day to-day the Canton authorities have hunted the ultra-modern Chinese women who refused to obey the edict of the Bureau of Public Safety. They arrested fourteen struggling girls, whom they put in jail. Hidden Elbows. :. The new regulations provide:— 1. Dresses must be of Chinese materials. 2. They must cover the neck, knees, and elbows, and the entire body. 3. Women must in addition wear trousers reaching below the knees. 4. Foreign styles of clothing are strictly prohibited. Many of the ultra modems, girls with the same spirit as those who led the 1927 social revolt by cutting of! their pigtails and unbinding their feet, emphatically announced their refusal to obey the Government. They say they will go to prison rather=than pay fines.