. The well-dressed woman: a study in the practical application to dress of the laws of health, art, and morals . wc^um COXVEXTIONAL MODESTY. The costume represented here embodies the principles advocated by theCommittee acting for the National Council of Women. It therefore demands an unprejudiced consideration. The skirt falls just below the kneeand is met at this point by the gaiter of the same material, or the Polish skirt of this length is less burdensome and not as easily soiled or wet as onewhich simply clears the ground. The artists say that this is the more graceful. TIIK BHOKT
. The well-dressed woman: a study in the practical application to dress of the laws of health, art, and morals . wc^um COXVEXTIONAL MODESTY. The costume represented here embodies the principles advocated by theCommittee acting for the National Council of Women. It therefore demands an unprejudiced consideration. The skirt falls just below the kneeand is met at this point by the gaiter of the same material, or the Polish skirt of this length is less burdensome and not as easily soiled or wet as onewhich simply clears the ground. The artists say that this is the more graceful. TIIK BHOKT W VI KINC length, and w<- believe that, on the whole, it is also the more modest. Itrelieves us from those unsightly spectacles which are continually witnessed onBtormy days al bad crossings, in climbing in and oul of conveyances, etc. Ifthis short skirl were the fashion there would be qo cry of impropriety. With the* COTted action Of intelligent women we may liave a costume eon forming to the laws of health, convenience, and beauty. PR A CTICA L 8 UG GES TIONB. 147 unity of purpose to make a general and permanentemancipation. In concluding the suggestions concerning hygi-enic clothing, it seems important to call atten-tion to our inhumane methods of dressing subject has been ably discussed by Dr. L. in Babyhood, June, 1886. Dr. Grosvenor comments thus on the conven-tional infant wardrobe : in the first place there isa little bandage to go two or three times aroundthe body over the navel dressing, and to be pinnedwith four pins ; and you
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