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Here's another item from The Colonial Cookbook -- an advertisement for the finest feminine footwear fashions 1909 had to offer:

Remember, ladies: Only the most shameless of harlots would be so brazen as to bare their ankles to strange men. It is but the shortest of slippery slopes leading from exposed calves to the catastophic folly of universal suffrage.

(On a more serious socio-linguistic note, the use of "Patrician" for a line of Edwardian Era women's footwear is quite fascinating. The term itself describes a postion of privilege, while its etymology is rooted in the Latin word for "father," pater, from which the word "patriarchy" is also derived.)

Girls At Our Best! - Too Big for Your Boots (from Pleasure, 1981) - The treacle masks the taste of the venom.