Those reform preachers who designed the moral gown for women did a good job. Now to design a woman who will wear it.
FAIR CUSTOMER (to salesman displaying modern bathing suit)—"And you're sure this bathing suit won't shrink?"
SALESMAN—"No, miss; it has nowhere to shrink to."
POLICEMAN—"Lost yer mammy, 'ave yer? Why didn't yer keep hold of her skirt?"
LITTLE ALFRED—"I cou—cou—couldn't reach it."
When ladies wore their dresses very low and very short, a wit observed that "they began too late and ended too soon."