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A Monarch and the Slit Skirt

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 21, 1914

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 91, No. 21.

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A Monarch and the Slit Skirt

King Albert of Belgium is strongly and rightly opposed to the freak fashions in woman's dress, and he evidently spares no pains to make his antipathy widely known. Recently at a court ball King Albert noticed a woman wearing a slit skirt of a most pronounced type. He immediately whispered instructions in the ears of the court marshal. The latter performed a delicate and disagreeable task in the following manner: Offering the woman his arm, he led her from the ballroom, remarking, "His Majesty has noticed that you have torn your dress, and has requested me to escort you to your carriage to enable you to return home for repairs."—Selected.