In general, despite the occasional appearance of foreign clothes on Chinese ladies, the custom is by means widespread, even amongst the younger set who will try most things. And as for the high col-Jar, one cannot help wondering jus?
action of a bit whether pe~ haps, here too vanity does not enter in as much as conservatism.
A Chinese girl, who had played tennis and other athletic prowess in a foreign university, and had thereby shed some of her inhibitions about foreign dress, ete., tolt the writer that as long as Chinese girls had thin shoulders and undeveloped necks (this was a trace of tennis-playing swank) they would never give up their high collars. One wonders!
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