WOMEN'S UGLY FROCKS

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 24, 27 July 1929, Page 19

WOMEN'S UGLY FROCKS

SHAPELESS AND BEDRAGGLED

A UK-re man writing for the English Press on the subject of the frocking of Ascot this year is terribly disgruntled about it all, and rends it flounce by flounce, as it wqre, writes the Loudoii correspondent of the "Adelaide Observer. ''

"TJie men," he said, "were perfectly attired," and, being a man, was competent to judge. But the man who is a lit judge of women's fi'oeking is a rarity. The opinion of Worth of Paris would be authoritative, but few others of the trousered sex arc qualified to express an opinion. "The opening day at Ascot was conspicuous for the untidiness of the women's dresses," pens the writer. "Their modes were shapeless and purposeless, the uneven bedraggled skirts being kicked by the heels and trailed on the grass.

"Never since the war, except in 1921 and 1922, years of notoriously bad design, have dresses and coats been so formless.

"It was a relief to find a dress with a straight hem. Jlany were short in the front and long at the back, excellent for chorus girls, but. not good for outdoor silhouettes."

Evening a leading article has been devoted to this disturbing note in Ascol f rocking, in which it says "apparently women, having won "their freedom, are about to throw it away ajid return to the long, full-flounced skirt." With the last paragraph one certainly agrees:—"Women have evolved a style suitable to practical conditions, exceeiingly healthy, and becoming. Let them keep it! "

This review of Ascot fashions certainly closes the argument: "Do women dress to please men.'" They do not. If they did a well-cut coat 'and skirt would be universal wear.

Believe me, the average man's ideal of a well-dressed woman is something neat and trim, slender-limbed, with a .short skirt, perfect silk and kid clad legs and feet, short coat which clips the hips closely but has a supplo lit above them, a low-necked blouse, and a small, close-fitting hat. The coming mode for women is "to float, wearing vaporous dresses ilaring behind like comets' tails'"! Much too aesthetic for masculine taste!