LENGTH OF SKIRTS
QUESTION ASKED IN PARLIAMENT
(P.A.) WELLINGTON. October 7. An assurance that an attempt would be made to persuade the dressmaking trade not*to follow the fashion set by Paris of making women’s skirts longer was sought from the Prime Minister (Mr P. Fraser) by Dr. A. M. Finlay (Government, North Shore) in the House of Representatives to-day. Dr. Finlay suggested that if co-opera-tion <zere not forthcoming any needless waste of materials could be prevented by law. He said the Parisian nine-inches-from-the-ground fashion, as well as calling for more material, would also lead many women to discard existing serviceable garments, simply because they were unfashionable. At least two shops in Auckland had already displayed longer skirts in their windows.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25309, 8 October 1947, Page 9
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