ITALY: Two Fingers' Lengths

Latest ukase of Signor Augusto Turati, Secretary General of the Fascist party: ''Young and even little Italian girls should by their costumes give the impression of the severity of the Fascist education which has been imparted to them—their skirts should come to at least two fingers' lengths below their knees."

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