The Rational Dress Society was an organisation founded in 1881 at London. Its members wore Turkish trousers and resisted, on health grounds, any attempt by fashion to restrict or deform the body. The society was active in dress reform selling boneless stays and what it considered to be practical garments. It condemned high heels and advocated the wearing of no more than seven pounds in weight of underwear. Research Rational Dress Society
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