Dress, with reference to heat : being a lecture written for, and published by the Australian Health Society / by Walter Balls-Headley.
- Balls-Headley, Walter.
- Date:
- 1876
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Dress, with reference to heat : being a lecture written for, and published by the Australian Health Society / by Walter Balls-Headley. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![may however be very tliin, because the stays are impermeable to wind. t^uclly, in oiir list of things to be avoided are tight garters; for they prevent the return of the blood to the body from the feet, and indites varicose veins in the legs, and swelled feet at a later period. 3rd]y, Few things are moi'e injurious to a woman than wet clothes, and especially wet feet. In summer, the stockings should not be too thin ; aiid in winter, of good worsted or wool. The boots at no time should have a very thin sole; or, if that be held to be necessary for fashion's sake, a sock may be worn on its inner side. Every woman should be provided with a pair of thick soled boots to walk in, and especially for wet days ; long Balmoral or lace-up boots ai'e perhaps the best for this purpose, and may be made very neatly; such should always be worn in winter. On coming in from the wet or damp ground, boots and stockings should be at once changed; and the feet, if cold, warmed. Goloshes, being air-tight, are apt to prevent evaporation, and thus the stockings are damp ; therefore it is often as necessary to change the stockings after a walk in goloshes, as if the water had penetrated the boots. Under no circiimstances shoiild a woman needlessly go out without pi'oper protection to her feet. It is, I hoj)e, unnecessary for me to speak of the danger of damping the petticoats, when it is the fashion to tie back the dress ; or of wearing so few, that the surface is chilled. Again,' while an ice does not hurt a girl warm after a dance, nor a short stroll on an enclosed verandah, it is unwise for her, so lightly clad, to sit or walk in draughts or a damp or cold air; and a cloak or shawl, not formed of lace, should always be at hand. Wliile we should be thus habitiially dressed in a manner calcu- lated to protect us from current changes of the temperature, we should be careful to provide ourselves with clothes of emergency formed of wool or furs, to guard us from sudden chill when leaving hot rooms for the cold outer air; or other such shock. Those, who go to sea, should always wear flannel, thick and of](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2227215x_0040.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
