FOOLISH FROCKS.
A woman's dress was trodden on in a London restaurant by her dancing partner, a catastrophe tliat has not happened certainly for fifteen years, and possibly not for twenty, states an overseas writer. It was not, of course, (the dress itself that was destroyed, but only those flowing tailpieces and streamers that are now so meaninglessly tacked on to an evening gown. None the less the social and historical importance of the event is immense. It marks the reappearance of women as -voluntary unpaid and unwanted carpetsweepers and trippers-up. In Viccorian days they carried their sense of what was becoming so far as to sweep the streets and pavements with their dresses We may come to that again, for it is thus that the calendar of femininity marks the circular movement of fashions and follies.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 307, 28 December 1929, Page 10
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137FOOLISH FROCKS. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 307, 28 December 1929, Page 10
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