Latest Fashion – Trophies of Cruelty
The Great Egret Picture by Mark Harris
CRUELTIES OF FASHION
BISHOP AND GROSS PARADOX
” Every, self-respecting woman,” declared the Bishop of Durham, speaking at a Prevention of Cruelty, meeting at Sunderland on the scandal [hidepost] the Plumage Bill not having been passed, “Ought to be heartily ashamed of appearing in public with her person garnished like an Indian savage with the scalps of his victims, with egret plumes and birds of paradise. I can hardly imagine a grosser paradox than that which will be presented in the churches this Easter, of Christian women kneeling at the altar rail to receive Holy Communion with their heads carrying such trophies of callous cruelty as have referred to.”
Source: Skegness News 16th March 1921
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