The well-dressed woman: a study in the practical application to dress of the laws of health, art, and morals (1893)
Ecob, Helen Gilbert · New York, Fowler & Wells co. · leaf 173
e. Resolved, That the National Council of Women of The new gymnastic suit is used in our best gymnasiums because of its light-ness and safety. It is mock-modesty which compels woman to conceal the factthat she is two-legged. The legs should be as free as the arms. The newgymnastic suit shows that… … THE NEW GYMNASTIC SUIT. wife. This gifted woman, an accomplished musician and a trained Shake-spearian reader, donned the gymnastic suit of the school-room for the variedduties of the morning. We have seen her going thus equipped through thedewy grass to the milk-yard and garden, with no fear of…
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