Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1914 — Women’s Present Dress Violation of Seventh Commandment [ARTICLE]

Women’s Present Dress Violation of Seventh Commandment

By Rev. Dr. GEORGE ASHTON OLDHAM, Episcopal Clergy,

AM, Episcopal Clergyman, New York

1N walking down Fifth .avenue, New York, these spring days, you see worse spectacles than in a second class vurietv performance ten years ago. MUCH OF THE PREVAILING STYLE OF WOMEN’S DRESS IS A VIOLATION OF THE SPIRIT OF THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT ITS VULGAR SEX APPEAL REPRESENTS A REVERSION TO A LOWER TYPE, MORE COMPATIBLE WITH A PRIMITIVE AND DECADENT ERA THAN WITH TWENTI ETH CENTURY CHRISTIAN ENLIGHTENMENT. This style of dress bids fair to rob both sexes of that (modest reserve which is the sfifeguard cf moral i tv.