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poorer women, where often to dry their skirts, the wearers hung them up in the bedrooms. Experience taught them that the long skirt in rainy weather was a menace to health and that the dampness oftentimes became the generator of colds and, in many cases, of more serious complications. It was their aim to establish the rainy-day dress among women of all classes.
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However, the new dress would not be ugly. It would be a dainty, light-weight skirt reaching to the shoe-tops,perfectly fitting boots with tops two inches higher than usual. Each woman could decide for herself as to the waist, and could make her costume as attractive as any she wears.
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as graceful as possible, but pledged themselves always to wear skirts that would not be more than 8 inches (200 mm) or less than 4 inches (100 mm) from the ground, and that their feet and ankles would be adequately protected against the damp and wet.
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