Personal hygiene / by Ada S. Ballin.

  • Ada Sarah Ballin
Date:
1894
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Personal hygiene / by Ada S. Ballin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    for the toes, just as gloves are made with separate divisions ior the fingers, is highly desirable. Such stockings are sold by the Jaeger Sanitary Woollen Clothing Company, and should also be worn when there is any offensive perspiration of the feet. The use of improperly-made boots is not entirely confined to the female sex, and men seem to suffer from this cause— arising from vanity—almost as much as women; but the pinched and anxious expression of the face, which is apt to result from the wearing of tight and uncomfortable boots and shoes, may be set off against any supposed increase of beauty derived from that cause; and to be perfectly well at ease is certainly preferable to having a foot apparently smaller than Nature has intended. Dress for Men Men frequently laugh at women for the injury they do themselves in the service of vanity, but men’s dress is not wholly free from certain objections. The first thing that a woman dress-reformer would attack in male costume is the chimney-pot or topper hat, which is one of the commonest causes of baldness in men, as it presses on the arteries that feed the scalp, and by interfering with the supply of blood injures the condition of the hair, while it is also practically impervious to air. It contains a certain quantity of stagnant air which acts as a sort of hot poultice on the head, and is also poisoned by the excretions of the skin of the head. The same remark applies, of course, to riding-hats worn by women. The only merit that can be urged for the chimney-pot hat, as far as I can see, is that in case a brick were to fall on a passer-by who was wearing one, it would protect his head from injury; and Sir Edwin Arnold has drawn my attention to another use to which it may be applied, by telling me that when travelling he uses his topper hat as a writing-desk. If all men were to keep their “ tiles ” for this purpose, they would
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