Show ADVOCATING THE GREEK DRESS Prom Nineteenth Century Iucasta When you advocate Greek dress you lose sight of another objection objec-tion or rather defect in itfor our requirements re-quirements It leaves the neck too bare Urbane should have said that that is one of its great merits The spring of the neck from the shoulders is one cf the characteristic beauties of the human hu-man figurea beauty which the old Greek displayed LYes and the old Greek dress was no doubt suitable to the old Greek life But it would not suit our ways and our climate to have the neck bare all day and all the year USurely it is very much a matter of habit which may be altered I have heard my mother say that in her youth the collar of a womans gown was arranged ar-ranged to show the collar bones of the wearer even in morning costume I dont know that there were any more colds or sore throats than now LI suspect that there were among women And it is pretty certain I believe be-lieve that the craze for classical dress in our grandmothers days during dur-ing which women went about decolette and harearmed in flimsy clothes and wintry weather resulted in a great increase in-crease of lung and throat ailments UOn the other hand I have been told that doctors strongly disapprove the muffling up of the throat with boas and fur tippets now so much in vogue LTruC But does not our argument argu-ment as usual tend to recommend the just medium which is always the safest way Let there be neither excess I ex-cess nor deficiency in the amount of I clothing worn |