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WOMAN'S SLAVERY TO THE DRESSMAKER

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 3, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 31.

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WOMAN'S SLAVERY TO THE DRESSMAKER.

Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, the author of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” in a public address, thus depicted woman's attitude to the demands of fashion and fashionable dressmakers:—
“The fashionable woman says to the dressmaker, ‘Do what you will with me; make me modest or immodest; tie up my feet, or straighten my arms, till use of them becomes impossible; deprive my figure of all drapery, or upholster it like a window-frame; nay, set me in the center of a movable tent, make me a nuisance to myself and everybody else, but array me so that people shall look at me, and so that I shall be in the fashion.’”