| Show fac f vv cc cv cv ev c w w of up pk a sion waist by LALLA melbini trench actress IS far easier to give a definition of immodesty than of modesty immodesty can be typified by two words in my estimation the peek a boo waist while I 1 appear every afternoon and evening on a roof garden in a tight fitting bathing suit I 1 must confess my sense of modesty would never go so far as to wear a peek a boo waist there is nothing more immodest than one of these suggestive half revealing half concealing garments that women have taken a a part of their costuming some one has said that for me to criticism criticise critic ise peek a boo waists is 6 little strange since my appearance is so utterly unhampered by con vent ional clothing let me make one point clear there is nothing a a a a a a A ira at more immodest about a woman s figure clothed in the tight fitting bathing suit than in a statue while a woman may appear on the tage in a costume which accentuates an act she is giving it is a part of her stage profession so long as it is not vulgar from an aesthetic sense it cannot be vulgar at all real vulgarity or immodesty can only exist where the artistic sense is shocked and to a pure mind with artistic instincts dominating it there cannot be susceptibility to im modest suggestions the venus of medici is an exquisite figure I 1 am sure there are few people who would admit being shocked at this old greek statue yet how infinitely vulgar and suggestive she would be if some shocked lady would garb her in a peek a boo waist on the street I 1 think women should wear street clothes the peek a boo waist with its multitudinous holes its glimpse of lingerie and colored ribbons is far more immodest than the so called out low necked gown of the english society woman or the strip tights of the beautifully formed actress american women have gained a reputation of discretion as corn pared with french women but I 1 must say that we would never be guilty of going the lengths of displaying our persons as the apparently conventional american women do in the pick a boo waist belfit af |
