ABSTRACT
Many of our readers whose sense of beauty and fitness has been appealed to by the artistic and hygienic aspect of dress in other pages of this journal, may find a difficulty in at once applying the principles or in modifying to them an already existing wardrobe. It is to such that the following hints are given by ‘one who has tried it.’ To lessen the burdens of life and to increase one’s physical capacity, is surely the duty of every reasonable being. To dress in 10, 12, or 14 separate articles of clothing causes a waste of strength, time, and material. Let us count the pieces worn by the average woman, say, in winter:– Vest, chemise, drawers, stays, flannel petticoat, make five to begin with. Add to this one or two underskirts possibly a knitted petticoat – with under bodice, then the outer dress, also in two or more pieces. Truly, with this multiplicity of articles, one can deeply sympathise with the objection so often made to the abandonment of the corset, viz., ‘How are the clothes to be held on?’ How indeed!
