Practically, the skirt has hindered the efficiency of women in work. In addition to this, women's skirts have spread disease to an appalling extent. Walking, the streets are a woman's concern. She is shown one of the new "train women" who are taking the places of men in Germany. They wear wide bloomers, but will, no doubt, later adopt a less voluminous form of garment. Women in trousers farming in the place of the men who have gone to the battle front, in a low skirt, a woman drags with her to her home or office all the deadly germs on the city's thoroughfares. The passing of the skirt will mark women's freedom. The slavery of the skirt! Woman has endured it for centuries. The skirt is the sign of woman's bondage, the insignia of her sex subjugation. Like the veil, which hides the features of the women of the Orient, the skirt has been designed to conceal as must as possible of woman from the eyes of all except her lord and master. Centuries are invariably required for the change of deeply rooted conventions and the elimination of prejudices. Perhaps no prejudices are so deeply rooted as those that concern what is called "the place of woman." Every step that women have taken toward a wider life has been met with opposition and condemnation. 