CLOTHING OF N.Z. WOMEN SUBJECT OF COMMENT
Wellington, Tuesday. The women of New Zealand had now even become a subject of comment by overseas visitors in respect of the clothes which they were graciously permitted to wear, said Mr W. J. Sim, K.C., at the National Party conference yesterday. “A dreary monotony and mediocre appearance” was one comment, to which Mr Nash had replied: ‘Women are very nicely dressed” and compared very • well with all the people he had seen overseas, with the complacency of a dictator. It remained to be seen whether the man was yet born who could dictate to New Zealand women as to what they should be permitted to buy and wear. “If the men become acquiescent under .socialism, the clear-sighted realism of women, and their at times illogical habit of rebelling, may turn out to be the salvation of New Zealand.” said Mr Sim.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 5, 29 June 1949, Page 3
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