WOMAN'S DRESS.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14993, 13 June 1914, Page 16

WOMAN'S DRESS.

BEFOB3I DEMANDED. .WOMEN* AND "IMMORAL" CLOTHING. (By Cable. —Press Association. —Copyright.* NEW YORK. June :-. ' The General Federation of Women's Clubs in Chicago has advocated dress reforms. At the annual convention various, speakers demanded that women should wear dresse* nee enough to walk in without inconvenience. It was stated that thousands of women were ready to dress in a sane manner if the manufacturers would allow them. The shopgirl really made the fashions for society women. When asked -for the very latest the shop-girls always brought out their own ideas of the latest fashions, and the society women accordingly adopted them. If the manufacturers assisted, reform would easily be ejected. Grace Hutt.-hins, a costume designer at Columbia University, asserted tljat American women's clothes were made by forei2 ncrs - Nowhere in the world was to be seen .such over-dressing as in tho United States. The hobble skirt was tho supreme effort of French manufacturers to s€«uro the silk trade in French hands. The narrow dresses, no cessi':ating silk underwear, cost 'German manufacturers the produce of ten thou-« sand loouis annually. Mfss Hutchins further declared thafr every woman who wore immoral clothes was not necessarily immoral, but rather she was thoughtless to an abnormal degree