ABSTRACT
In the days of the youth people were taught to regard woman’s dress as a sacred mystery; and so it ought to be to the opposite sex. For Heaven’s sake, let them wear as many or as few petticoats as they please, and let them be of whatever shape and texture suits their fancy and convenience. Let them hang them to their shoulders or their waists, whichever they find most comfortable, and let them do so with strings, suspenders, buttons, hooks and eyes, or paste and sealing-wax if they like it. But in the name of modesty, let them do it in private in their own rooms, and not in public. People do not want to know how their lower rigging is placed and set up; that surely is their own business, and the discussion of it by men in the public press is disrespectful and impertinent.
