The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-08-09
DoNALDsoNvII1E. La. SATURDAY AUGUST g. 1915
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The x-Ray Dress.

here, and with it has come the telh
tale transparent dress, which when
worn by a woman with the sun or an
electric light between the Wearer and
the audience" reveals the alb.
sence Of sufficient undergarments.
Wednesday afternoon the News
/ Star carried a local story to the ef-
{ feet that an engineer stopped his
| train and hastened to a point of want
age in order to gaze Wistfullyt upon
lady going down the street in
one of the diaphanous costumes. The
sun was shining brightly, and he had
the satisfaction of knowing he saw
practically all thera was to see. Very
little was left to the Imagination.
Wednesday morning a business man
while gazing at lady going down
| the street in a transparent outfit, fell
| and hurt himself so badly that a
physician was needed to dress his
wounds.
Certainly this outrageous transpar.
ent costume has reached the limit
| when men quit their work and fall
over themselves in an effort to gaze
upon the Wearers OF such outfits,
A woman does not turn and rub
ber' when she spies man attired
| in thin suit, and neither does she
make any remarks when she is COM
PEELED to gaze at a male in a bathing
suit. The reasons for this are many
andsNaried, but among them can't be
found a single one that would in
dieate that she abstains because of
any fair-minded or broad-minded
principles or because OF what might
be termed female chivaIry. Ever
since that Garden Of Eden scandal
got out man has had a habit of going
around in more or less underdressed
state, while the deadlier of the
species have been going out Of their
way to give their neither extremities
as much privacy as possible.
Of course, no one knows just why
this should be, but the fact remains
it is the unusual that attracts.
Hence man naturally turns and looks,
and if the sight is pleasing to the
eye, calculates to that effect.
If this new transparent style Of
street dress stays in vogue long
enough, the curves and shapes on dis
play in broad daylight and by elec-
trio light will in matter of time
cease to be unusual, and will, there
fore, cease to draw looks or COM
ments from mere man Until this
time does arrive, however, women
who wear the transparent costume
must not be embarrassed If the men
rubber.
Some one has said there is another
explanation. Getting down to
| cases, the Creator is alleged . to
be blamed for this "rubbering
habit. He made man unattractiYe to
begin with, and the custom man has
had of showing what there is to him
has made him all the more so. Why
should any man, woman or child turn
to gaze at the figure of male be-
ing, even though his form stands
out Like Silhouette through the
gauze of his linen suit? Men are un-
calmly animals. They were not put
here as ornaments to be attractive.
One glance at a man in a bathing
suit will convince every one on that
point.
But woman was fashioned along
different lines. Her aines, in fact,
are all curves. There is a symmetry
Ia pleasing bulging here and a
slight rounding there, and when she
is dressed in one of these diaphanous
outfits which reveal to the best ad-
vantage all these peculiarities, nan
just simply cannot be blamed if he
allows his eyes to rest longer on the
wearer than strict etiquette calls for.
Were mere man so attractively made
certainly he would blame no woman
for admiring his graceful curves,
and the woman must not complain il
the men gaze longer than usual,
especially if they persist in wearing,
on "dress parade" one Of the
transparent outfits.-Monroe News
Star.