Decency Collection

Comic postcard, Woman in bikini and beach inspector Date: 20th century

WW2 Victory, Liberation of Czechoslovakia, postal cover envelope Date: 1945

Hemline Regulations
A female swimmer having the hemline of her bathing costume inspected at Palm Beach. Date: circa 1925

THE THREE MORAL GRACES
THE THREE GRACES There is no Grace without Decency, and there is no Decency without a Veil Date: 18th century

POLISH SHORT SKIRT
A Polish girl takes refuge in a Warsaw church when an indignant crowd attack her because her skirt is too short for decency Date: 1929

The Trew Origin of Trousers by W. Heath Robinson
The First Blush - or the Dawn of the sense of propriety. Heath Robinson imagines that trousers were invented when decency dictated that the legs of Stonehenge be covered up to spare the blushes of

After the Battle by Matania, 1914
Imaginary scene from the early months of the First World War when the British Expeditionary Force were fighting the Germans in the open

The canteen or the dive - in the name of decency and common

Harem trousers replace the hobble skirt
From fetters to freedom: the hygienic harem replaces the horrible hobble skirt. Four radical designs from New York and Paris

Namibia - Adaptation to Western Costume
A very interesting card produced by the German Catholic Mission to Namibia, showing the before and after result of the adoption of a western style of clothing to the native populace

Then - And Now by Leslie Marchant
Four cartoons comparing how a young Victorian woman would be watched while sea bathing (by several stout and stern chaperones) to the modern girl of 1925, who breezes to the beach on her motorcycle

Myth / the Three Graces
THE THREE GRACES There is no Grace without Decency, and there is no Decency without a Veil

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