Show prin pre smith denounces denounce styles Deseret News A sweeping swee denunciation of modern drew dress was made saturday afternoon by president joseph F smith in the assembly hall ball before the officers of the Y L M I 1 A president smith declared that clothes worn today on the streets of salt lake are a disgrace that it was not necessary for women of the church to copy fashions of questionable origin and that lie he hoped the day would soon come when women af q the church would set their own styles and follow the them rather than accept fashions on decreed by gentiles in large eastern writers centers he decried the wearing of low necked dresses short sleeves and short skirts and all such styles as allow undue exposures of the body his mother he declared would have been disgraced and dishonored in his eyes had she appeared alad as many of the women today he advised parents not to permit their children to tire dress in the extreme modes and declared that there was no need of his bis daughters confirming to such fashions the speaker also warned the mothers present against allowing their daughters to remain out late at night with men they did not know and against allowing allotting them tu to associate suel te w th ill men of other faiths in closing lie appealed to the women to hodr clothes made by their own hands hand neat tidy clean and presentable |