NEW YORK FASHIONS.

Evening Star, Issue 17922, 18 March 1922, Page 3

NEW YORK FASHIONS.

KNICKERBQOKERS FOR WOMEN,

Sporty knickerbockers for women wore advocated by the American Designers Association on the third day of its convention in New York, to balance the garments it. had’ recommended for men on the preceding day. The men s garments, with high waists, braiding and satin pip* iacs. it was conceded, had a distinctly feminine note, and the knickers in tweed, given to woman, dressed her like a little man. ■ . Before the convention brought ite mannish knickerbockcr suits into view,, it passed a resolution letting itself out ot any appearance of trying to make woman unwomanly. The resolution said that never in the last fifty years had the dress of woman been so convenient and modest or lent itself so, entirely to the virtues of hygiene, and that short, scant skirts, which did not hinder n_ woman’s motions, might preserve her,life in case of accident when she could not escape swathed in long garments, .... • .. The convention, in its discussion, said that knickerbockers for women were certain to come into general use, and that it, ,'ijS a progressive organisation, should be in the vanguard in standing for them. A knickerbockcr suit worn at the evening session by Aire Alice L. Becht, daughter of Daniel Edward Ryan, the cighty-threo-year-old designer who suggested the latest style, was of rough mixed woollen goods, til© knickers ending in a cuff buttoned, over the stocking a little below the knee. There also was a smart mannish coat to go with them.