RT Journal
T1 LOndon
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1929
FD August 3
VO 93
IS 5
SP 391
OP 393
DO 10.1001/jama.1929.02710050045023
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02710050045023
AB The Necessary Evil of Clothes 
    The modern woman, with her short skirts and sleeveless dresses, has a stanch upholder in Dr. William G. Savage, health officer for Somerset. In the course of an article on clothing, one of a weekly series issued by the Central Council for Health of the Society of Medical Officers of Health, Dr. Savage expressed surprise that "short skirts, which do not pick up the sweepings of the streets," and "the open neck and the sleeveless arms, which do give an opportunity for the ultraviolet rays of the sun to be absorbed," should be described as "immoral." He thinks that they are essentially healthful. "There is no doubt," he declares, "that woman has recognized that clothing is a necessary evil, and is doing her best to have as little of that evil as possible." Conservative man, "muffled up in his tight collars and his heavy clothes,