Lickerish Voluptuaries

I'm not sure how this reads in the Hong translation, but here's a sample from Lowrie:

"Oh if fashion meant nothing more than that a woman in the heat of desire were to throw off all her clothes, well, that would be something. But that is not all of it, fashion is not undisguised sensuality, not tolerated debauchery, but a contraband trade in indecent licensed as decorum. As in heathen Prussia a marriageable girl wore a bell which served as a signal to the men, so likewise is the existence of a woman of fashion a perpetual bell-ringing, not for debauchees but for lickerish voluptuaries."

~ the Fashion Designer in In Vino Veritas