CORRESPONDENCE.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16406, 28 December 1918, Page 5

CORRESPONDENCE.

DRESS REFORM FOR "WOMEN. TO THE EDITOR Off "THE FEESS. ' Sir —I have been thinking of late brw rit>e is the time and opportune tbo SSLiTta brimdw tw» tbo notice of the public. But betor.. suggestions, let me. say emphatically that my aim is to raiio the moral tone, and not to lower X know only too well that the lowmora tone at present prevailing is a standout, blot on our boast of ,high culture The War was not without us manv lessons, ouo of the chief of bein"- the great need for economy. -Sow, as is*well known, the amount of money spent bv tbo average woman on her clothes, "is out of all proportion to hei means, and I am fully -persuaded that this wrong state of- affairs mW " 1 large measure be modified by the introduction of a more useful stylo of attire sav, knee breeches, leggings, a a long sac coat. Of course, 1 know that a suggestion of tlus kind to bo a success would need first to bo considered bv women of high social standing, but I'also feel sure that if once its adoption found favour, there would be no desire to revert to tlio skirt,_ and we saould have plnved our oart in war ecoaomj without Hear or. favour.-Pours^ctt.,