PRANKS OF FASHION

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 290, 3 September 1931, Page 9

PRANKS OF FASHION

Bustle “Like a Concertina” BOWLER HAT ON DECLINE London, September 1. The hectic vogue of tho bowler hat is likely to end as swiftly as It has begun. The new hats at the Olympia fashion exhibition have saucy curves showing half the face line. Buyers are amazed to learn that bustles will be absolutely necessary for smart women. One manufacturer has designed a bustle like a concertina which automatically collapses when the wearer sits down and bulges when she rises.

The new gowns mean more work for husbands, as they have dozens of hooks, buttons, and snap buckles.

WOMEN IN PYJAMAS “Look Unutterably Foolish” London, September 1. “We have no objection to women wearing pyjamas as long as they wear them in the right place—in bed,” declares the Rev. Marshall Selwyn, vicar of Holy Trinity, Bournemouth. ' "We can perhaps stand them on the beach, but we cannot stand them in the streets of our town. Trousers are man's prerogative. Some men look quite nice in them, but women look unutterably foolish and ugly.”