[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sm,—May a reader of
the Spectator be allowed to demur strongly to " Crusader's " statement that women have become more healthy owing to modern clothing—or lack of it ?
We can only estimate the result of present fashions when this generation has grown up. I expect the girls of to-day will be sad wrecks thirty or forty years hence. The stoop they affect must end in making them bent old women at fifty, and what of the poor lungs thus hindered in their expansion ?
Constant excitement and restlessness, braced up by cock- tails and drugs, must in time tell a sad tale on nerves, and produce an old age of misery both for themselves and those belonging to them. Happily the present fashions must pass, as all fashions do pass, but meanwhile it is hard that women and men of refinement should have to endure the sight of great fat thighs exposed to an extent their owners can hardly be aware of, of coarse upper arms and scarlet chests so blatantly thrust under one's eyes that you cannot tell where to look to avoid the unpleasant vision.
It is hard enough to have to bear it, but harder still to be told such a state of affairs is desirable !—I am, Sir, &c., A READER OF THE " SPECTATOR."
Previous page
