ABSTRACT
A practical woman has probably had a quarter of a century’s longer experience in wearing women’s dress than the correspondent a London ‘Girl Graduate’ has had to say a few words on the subject of dress. There are now hundreds of educated women who, having to walk in all weathers to the places of their occupation, have adapted their clothing to this end. The folly of some women in hanging from their waists a series of petticoats of varying lengths and widths, which must in the least wind twist and roll round their knees and render locomotion unnecessarily fatiguing is only comparable with their ignorance of hygiene. It is impossible to believe that when fashionable women are as well instructed in the laws of health as they are in those of etiquette, that they will persist in wearing heavy skirts and continue to overlook the advantages of ‘divided’ garments.
