THE REALM OF FASHION

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 7, 8 July 1922, Page 16

THE REALM OF FASHION

In allusion to the continual criticism of long, short, tight, loose, and medium skirts which, like the poor, is always .with us, an exchange says :—Lady Diana Cooper, a woman of queenly figure, puts the silly males right on this complex matter of fashion in the course of an article which she contributes to the Daily Mail. "Some of those who have written on this matter —I think they were men—have pointed out, no doubt from careful observation, that different lengths of skirt suit different types of beauty," She writes. "The fact is indisputable. Juno needs a train, and Trilby does not. But when male contributors deduce from this simple truth the apparently equally simple doctrine that Juno should wear a train and Trilby go without they are unwittingly advocating a procedure which, if carried to its logical conclusion, i would lead to nothing else'7 than Bolshevism in the realms of fashion. .Law was invented because people differ as to what is right and wrong. Law may be fallible, but it is all we have to go by. Fashion was invented because we cannot agree as to wh~t is beautiful. If you want a warning as to the results of disregarding law look at Russia. If you want a warning as to the results' of disregarding fashion go to an artistic tea party in Chelsea. When skirts grow short Juno must grin and bear it, and bide, her time while Trilby makes the hay! For the skirts will come down again as surely as tho leaves fall in autumn, and Trilby's short hair will look silly when it has to be worn with a long train. The wheel of fashion will turn a full circle, and Juno will sweep into the ballroom again, trailing clouds of .glory, every inch a queen. As in business every man must do the best for himself, keeping within the law,' so in dressing every woman must make ■ the most of herself according to the fashion of the- year. Nobody can afford to neglect it. Some fashions seem more sensible than others, but it is not really fashion's business to be sensiblfe."