The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-02-01
THROAT BARE, AND LITTLE
ON LEGS NO WAY TO d. SIS
!. DIR. JUANITA 1. LEA.
"Cruelties of Fashion" Are
Scored in Clever Address
by Woman Physician
DIR. JUANITA 1. LEA.

hooking as though she had stepped
out Of a page in Godey's Fashions for
Ladies OF the early sos, Or. Juanita
l. Lea, gave a talk on The cruelties
Of fashion" before the Twentieth Cen
fury club. Thursday afternoon, in the
Century building. when a Costume
tea was given by the club, the first
affair OF its kind attempted by De
troit clubwomen. DIR. Leas quaint
gown was OF garnet brocade. its skirt
hanging In voluminous folds beneath
a polonaise with pulled paniers, and
dainty undersleeves of white muslin
edged with handknit lace failing away
from the bell sleeve. cameo brooch
fastened dainty collar OF the muslin
and lace at the neck, large cameo
drop earrings bobbed beneath q large
poke bonnet Of straw and white lace
mitis covered the hands. A Paisley
shawl over the shoulders completed
the quaint picture OF figure OF the
fashionable lady OF so or SO years
ago.
DR.. Leas talk was brilliant, witty
and filled with the commonsense
truths those who know her have
grown 10 expect when this unusually
clever woman speaks in public. The
present day fashion OF women wear
ing nothing around their threats and
not much more on their legs, the
whole surrounded with heavy flIrs."
was given severn arraignment by DR..
Lea who said that such style" could
be classed as nothing less than
cruelty"
"Cruelties analysed are somewhat
contradictory terms-cruelty, inhu-
manity, Indifference to the suffering OF
other beings and the disposition to
inflict pain" said DR.. Lea. adam 1t
Will be remembered introduced fash
ion In raiment. Fashion is a large
part OF Ewes curse in this man-made
world. As woman becomes more a
human creature and less the display
sex, new development In dress, in
comfortable, beautiful, clothing, freed
from cruelty and fashion. may be con-
fidently expected Meantime We have
the tyranny of clothes.
"Our grandmothers wore their ex-
otto fabrics with sense OF their or
igin, a consciousness OF the romance
that came from adventure In distant
seas and felt in the rare textures the
torch OF the fingers that had made
them. The modern woman thinks only
of the crude, visible effect.
Dr. Lea referred to "the slaughter or
the innocent" In birds and animals
TO provide fashions raiment, for
women.
"Over 40 years ago. she said, Prof.
Newton told the British association, OF
Britain, that women who wear birds
plumage bear the murderer's hand on
their forehead and yet the appalling
waste Of bird life goes on solely to
minister TO vanity and fashion. Is 1t
not time that our responsibility to so
ciety at large forbade accepting ignor-
ance as an excuse? The battle now
being waged against fashion can re-
suit successfully only IL the lover OF
nature on the one side and the deal
ers in furs and feathers on the other.
arrive at reasonable compromise.
Stamping out the cruelties OF fashion
resolves itself into the hope OF the
force OF public opinion"
Others who spoke on Dress" In
cluded Mrs. S. l.. Smith, Miss Marion
Service, Mrs. Orrin r. Baldwin, Mrs.
Percy Farrell and DR.. Minnie f. Daw-
son.