People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1896 — Dress Culture. [ARTICLE]

Dress Culture.

A Dress Culture club that has 55 members pledged, among other things, to wear their fair weather gowns three inobes from the ground at its lowest point and their rainy weather dresses three inches shorter still has been considering also the question of suitable footweaf for tbe street The high bioycle shoe was looked upon with much saver as the best kfbd of a oovering for the feet and ankles in stormy weather. All the members of the olnb agreed to discard tbe high beeL One and ail these baroic and sensible women further pledged themselves to give up all superfluous finely in street dress, aiming at neatness and quietness rather than an ornamental and showy model. As a concession to husbands, a longer walking drees may be worn on Sundays, and presumably on other holidays, if the head of tbe household objects to the abbreviated dress.—-New York Letter.