MELBOURNE WOMEN.

Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 47, 24 February 1906, Page 11

MELBOURNE WOMEN.

' "» " Melbourne women, I ,' «aid a innn from the country lost week (according to a recent issue of the A/gus), "aro extraordinary. When ' J wan down at Cup time I thought I had never seen so mnny well-dressed ■women*, By woll dressed t mean expensively drfessed, their clothes looking their reputed vftltio, I am not speaking v o<f the goWmworn at tho races alone, but what wns ' to'.'b^) seen in ColHns'stroet every aftfirribon'., Now you go in|o town, and almoit every girl is in a neat cotton frock or d wluto muslin. She looks jttst ns nice as she did tluoo months ago} but what I would like to know is, when ■ are the showy dresses that I know tho possesses worn?" It Is oertalnly a feature of the prosont season that elaborate dressing is rarely seen in the city, sad that tho slmplor stylos nro practically universal. * it has boon, up to now, pointed cut as the difference between «. Melbourne., and L a Sydney girl, that the one devotes an afternoon to parading the streets in her,' beat frock, whilst' tho other looks upon th,e city only as in* ovitablti fora shopping expedition, and goes there during tlio morning, leaving tho afternoon free for, amusement, whioh, takes her out df town. It is going too far to My \hw"ths Melbourne girl has deserted Collins-street in tho afternoon, but, as a' rule jijsV now/ tier best garden party frbok is «;ept -For, occasions whon it can be most appropriately worn.— Tuo Argus.