ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the large amount of correspondence that has been called forth by the recent lecture on Dress. It shows that the subject of dress reform is one that is occupying many wise and charming people, who have at heart the principles of health, freedom, and beauty in costume. And ‘H.B.T.’ and ‘Materfamilias’ will have all the real influence which their letters – excellent letters, both of them – certainly deserve. As for the other correspondent, the first principle of dress, that all garments should be hung from the shoulders and not from the waist, seems to be generally approved of, although an ‘Old Sailor’ declares that no sailors or athletes ever suspend their clothes from the shoulders, but always from the hips. The value of the dress is simply that every separate article of it expresses a law.
