RIGHT DRESS
♦ IBy WHIM WHAM] "Simplification o£ clothing is being undertaken in New Zealand, and progress has already been made . . The Minister of Supply (the Hon. D. G. Sullivan) in an interview with "The Press.” War’s Exigencies, it appears, Are going to modify our Dress, And prune with sharp official Shears All Kinds of fashionable Excess. With not the least Alarm I note, Nor injured libertarian Wrath, This Move to cut the Country’s Coat According to the Country’s Cloth; For Fashion is a Tyranny Far worse than legal Interference, And it permits no Man to be The Author of his own Appearance. So if these sorry Times require Such Measures. I shall be contented To wear some simplified Attire, Nor feel the least Bit regimented. But, better still, sofne Regulation (I feel it could be framed with Ease) Allowing me a Dispensation To dress precisely as I please! Ah, then my simplified Attire Would set a Standard hard to beat — One Garment, in the Roman Way, No Socks, and Sandals on my Feet: And when the Weather’s mild or hot I would not hesitate at all To go as simply clad—Why not?— As Adam did before the Fall!
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23717, 15 August 1942, Page 4
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