"But your ministers preach about them as if the depth of decolletage or the height of a skirt influenced the immortal soul, and your employers ban the transparent blouse on that score."
"But thab is only class prejudice, restricted to a very few narrow-minded people."
"Granted that," assented Utopia disarmingly, "yet how about that smart tea we attended the other afternoon. You remember' the theme of the whole afternoon wa' skirt-lengths and whether six or eight inches: from the ground should be the standard street standard. The unfortunate girl who came in wearing sweet gown, although manifestly a 1922 model, some 10 or perhaps 104 inches from the floor, was regarded with as much scorn as is she had been caught cheating at cards. Such ill-concealed in dignation could hardly have been aroused for anything short of some moral obliquity."
"Dear me, no," I protested uncomfortably reminded of my superior sensation when I compared outlines, '"'but.you see, it's hardly wise to be conspicuous by not conforming to the best "standards of fashion,"
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