Taste But No Courage

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 22, 21 October 1937, Page 5

Taste But No Courage

Australian Women Are Not Smart

London, October 2. MISS ELIZABETH EDWARDS, 26-year-old daughter of a West Australian sheepfarmer, has come to London with a mission. She is studying glamour in order to lake it back with her to the women of Australia. “You see, Australian women are not smart,” she said, “and they don’t make the best of their looks. I want to change that. “They are afraid of really smart clothes and accessories. They will buy them. Oh, yes, they spend a lot of money. But. you never see them wearing them. Do you know why.* “A woman might pay £l2 for a bat. The only thing about it is an enormous quill standing right up at the front. Or she will buy a dress that is perfectly plain except for a huge bow on (lie shoulder that ‘makes' it.

“She wears them, hut. you don’t know, because she’s removed the quill and she’s taken the bow off and tucked in two nice little gardenias instead. “You see, she had the taste and the feminity to admire the originals, but not. the courage to wear them. I want to help to give her the courage.”