The Posture of School Children, With Its Home Hygiene And New Efficiency Methods for School Training
The Posture of School Children, With Its Home Hygiene And New Efficiency Methods for School Training
Bancroft Jessie Hubbell
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The main diflBiculty with (so-called) civilized dress, from the hygienic standpoint, is that it is not content to take the human structure as it exists, but must mold it over into grotesque distortions. In this sense, most of us are usually "covered, but not clothed.'' So much is said of the effects of corsets and high heels for women, that the chief ills of clothing seem concentrated in these features, and the fact overlooked that the clothing of men and boys often has equally harmful features.... Only one who is trying to correct the posture of boys in large numbers may, perhaps, fully appre- ciate how distorting are certain features of their clothing. Most harmful, perhaps, is the making of coats so high in the neck behind that they lie like the yoke of a harness across the cervical spine, thrusting the head forward. With this position of the head is usually found the depressed chest and forward position of the shoulders. The shoulder position is still further 167 Digitized by Google 1 68 THE POSTURE OF SCHOOL CHILDREN aggravated by shoulder seams in the coats, set so that they literally mold and hold the shoulder blades in a forward position.
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