DRAPERS ON FASHIONS

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 68, 13 December 1932, Page 4

DRAPERS ON FASHIONS

Trends of the Times

(By Mavis.) Dominion Special Service.

London, Sept. 20.

' When the British drapers chose Oxford for their Chamber of Trade Summer School it was a good indication of bow seriously men are taking fashion. It was even declared by one of the speakers that the time was not far off. when universities Will establish Chairs of Fashion. Another said that the wearing of trousers by women was a symbol of their changed outlook, foreshadowing the time when women will be the superior sex and the dominant partners in human relationship. Some of the other things they said about us were: — o The average modern Tvomau- shows an astonishing preference for a variety of clothes rather than for a few of good quality. And—she is very difficult to sell because she knows what she will pay and she demands a. perRieher women spend more of their dress allowance on gowns for indopr gatherings, and poorer women select outdoor clothing—because their homes are too small and they <Jp their entertaining outside—ln cinemas and cafes. Shop girls are more loyal than men in the service they give to their em“There are fashions in everything, but the most remarkable has been the variation of the style of the human form. Women now refuse to let themselves expand in width or (0 be correct they must be rather short, somewhat flat, and very slim.