WOMAN AND DRESS

Evening Star, Issue 18394, 1 October 1923, Page 1

WOMAN AND DRESS

NO CLUE TO CHARACTER,

THE VATICAN DECREES,

LONDON, September 16. Discussing recent Vatican decrees, Mr 0. R. IV. Novinson, the well-known artist, declares that it, is impossible to judge a woman's character by her dress, and that it. is equally erroneous to Judge the morality of a period by its fashions. France, ho pointed out, was most licentious when the vogue consisted of the most demuro shepherdess costume. (Modern dress was completely barbarous. Woman no longer relied on her own taste, and had neither the intelligence nor tho energy to he original, but wa.s content to accept tho tyranny of fashion without considering whether or not it, made her look foolish.

Respectable British middle-class women copied the. fashions of the Paris cocotte, oblivious of the fact that they were often designed to hide physical defect*. Mr Nevinson’s latest picture presents <* now type of problem. His emu,led Po.trnit of Aftr S'.” O T p the face hi hidden and lie ! th most prominent feature. Six lea/cUng iacLeo have already claimed to be Hie Ougmal of the picture.