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Thomas Raddall in his book Halifax, Warden of the North said that fashionable young ladies in 1795 wore one-piece dresses made of a light fabric such as batiste or lawn. The garments were cut very low with a ribbon tied around the torso, just under the bust line. He also said that the young women wore very little underneath and if one of them were to be caught in a sudden rainstorm while walking down the street today, she would be arrested on the spot.
The fear of incarceration for indecent exposure would have kept me confined to quarters.
I first read Thomas Radall's book when I was still wearing miniskirts. Miniskirts also restricted fashionable women as the short hemlines were not designed with freedom of movement or modesty in mind. Any bending at the waist (as one does to sit, leave and enter a car or pick things up), had to be done very, very carefully.
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