The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-12-24
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GEORGIA WOMEN RESIST CHURCH
BOARDS INTERFERENCE
WITH DRESS.
Ut IS NO MANS CONCERN HOW
WOMEN DRESS. THEY
ASSERT.

$ATLANTA, Ca. Dec. Women
and the churches In Georgia are d.
yided over the styleof women's dress
Baptist: Methods, sPresbyterian and
Episcopal denominations have APP
pointed a Joint commission to discour-
age the new styles and the new
dances. But the Woman's Christian
Temperance association has refused
to indorse this commission, In addi-
tion, Mrs. M. i. McLendon, president
Of the Georgia Woman's Suffrage as
ISOLATION, has asserted r"it is a piece
OF fmpertinence for business men, or
ecclesiastical men, or9iany other sort
of men to say how women shall
dress" st.1 IA
Her interview Is the sharpest word
spoken in the controversy DR.. c. f.
Wilmer. member Of the commission
insisted men are much concerned in
women's dress when styles become
Objectionable.
Some Dress Indecently."
Some women In Atlanta and i'll
other cities in Georgia dress indie
Gently" he said. "and dress that way
intentionally. others innocently
dress in an objectionable way. Every
sane man knows that. Aud what the
church purposed In appointing COM
mission was merely to create conn-
iteiiiacting influence. We will'mak2
Into effort to lay down rules : -
3At the recent state conventions Or
lthe four Protestant denopinatioln.ss,
BBaaptists, Methodists and PresbytG-
rrians condemned the new styles and
the new dances as immoral, and EpiS-
copalians deplored the unfortunate
tendencies Of tile time. All united on
the commission idea.
No Mans Concern.
But it is no mans concern how
women shall DRESS" objected Mrs.
McLendon, president of the suffrage
association. "And It doesn't matter
whether he is an ecclesiastical man
or business man. / don't like the
Istyles that women now affect. Blu!
they can manage their own reforms
without aid from the men.
Il don't want to wear narrow
skirts. Buff buy clothes designed
by men and sold by men what else
can | get? If woman isn't clever
enough to make her own apparel she
must take tlieohobbles designed by
masculine dressmakers III Paris and
then be. rallied atggy!. masculine crit
les here. az SaS<o,
"The chief.tr6uble. is that women
don't assert themselves. Most of Us
arc opposed to extreme styles. But
we are so much in the habit Of ac'
cepting things that We Keep silent
and take What is given to u.s. And
yet when We begin to be asserttVE
and speak our minds on what We
| know about and need to talk about
you hear men regretting the oldtasf'
Toned woman and her womanIS
ways"
| II will say this, however, for men
! they have chosen their own style O.
dress better than women have chosen
or been chosen for. l like your trous
crs a good deal better than DO onl
tight skirts. It's easy TO get about
in them. They are nice looking ant
sensible. ILL.,
"A man certainly has less trouble
with his clothes than any woman
and he looks nice. But all the same
a woman's needs are different from
a mans and think he has enough tt
look after as it is without saying RoN
y she shall dress. I'd Bma
slots Of Sensible Women, a?J
~ dJust leave that to women, ,The%ii
solve the problem we'll enough. Thsrf
| arc, lots of sensible women IN lBt
world, and | think there are few VIC
ere not modest and good. Talk as
much as you please of old fashioned
reserve and gentleness, women arr
women everywhere and at all times
"Hooped skirts weren't any more
an emblem of modesty than tigh'
skirts are. Women are Just as lcal
Gus of their good name today when
they nut a yard and a half OF cloth
into their skirts, and skinny yarc
and a half at that, as they were When