A DRESS WAR.
Women seemed, at the beginning- of the autumn dress season, to take-to longer skirts very meekly at the gestion of the big . dressmakers. . Here and there one heard a protest,'but the trailing draperies appeared almost, at once at fashionable functions, and- at every dress show 'there were longer skirts for every occasion. AIL but the ultra-smart dresismakers are finding now, however, that their clients- are not submitting so meekly as they did to, the extra inches. After wearing skirts which resell midway between )laiee; and .ankle, women have realised ■•■that' they .are dowdy compared with the skirt which only just covered the knee, and; <jhat coats which are long give a dowdier effect .still. One dressmaker -said■Jβ'ceritly ( writes "A Maid in that every frock and coat which she sold at. a recent dress parade had been returned to her since for shortening, and that- before the winter arrived' the: long dress-would "be confined to;evening 'wear only. •". : ■ , ■ ■■■■ ■;..■..:.. .■ ■.-. ,■,
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 20, 24 January 1930, Page 11
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159A DRESS WAR. Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 20, 24 January 1930, Page 11
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