Too much exposure

“The presentday fashions are shocking. An illustration is given by the halfnaked young women who appear in the streets of our city.

Still, they are not so much to blame as their parents.”

These observations were made by the Rev Fr Kennedy during the course of a sermon in the Franciscan Church, Waverley, Sydney, recently.

Revivalist Booth predicts with this era of “powdered” nudity, and “peekaboo” fluff, “loandbehold” blouses, and “touchandtumble” frocks, the devil will get the girl, and the British Empire will follow the Babylonian and other ancient empires, and be dumped into hell.

— ODT 19.5.1922

COPIES OF PICTURE AVAILABLE FROM ODT FRONT OFFICE, LOWER STUART ST, OR WWW.OTAGOIMAGES.CO.NZ THE steamship Tasmania in dock at Port Chalmers for examination and repairs following a beaching at Bluff. — Otago Witness, 23.5.1922