Show The CUothes Women Wear I 6 headers of this column know that there is t good deal seriously to be said about feminine clothing As regards the general public the most important indictment In-dictment Is I against the trailing skirt which rescues tubercle bacilli from the sunlight and brings them Into the nursery and livingroom But as regards the lady herself a German doctor has just published an exhaustive study of among other thing the weight of feminine clothes which weigh on the average 30 percent per-cent more than mens though woman is smaller and less muscular One new criticism of the corset may also be quoted that the modern straightfront article docs its best to produce l the type of figure which every anthropologist associates with the Hottentot The author sides with every one who has studied the subject sub-ject In advocating the bifurcated undergarment against the winning note of the tempestuous petticoat which as Herrlck forgot to add protects against neither cold nor dust London Chronicle |