THE SKIRT AS A RELIC
WHEN WOMEN WEAR ATEN’S CLOTHING. Mr. Booth Tarkington, the American author, who has been interviewed on Paris professional women’s dexnand for mannish clothes, says that in titty years tho skirt will bo “ onty a relic,” according to the New York correspondent of the New York 1 Herald (Paris edition). “There is no reason at all for tho skirt nowadays,” ho declared. “ I expect to see tho time when women will wear garments made approximately in the same fashion as those of men. Modesty is an element that docs not enter into the question. Women are determined to have equality with men iu their clothes as well as otherwise.”
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Evening Star, Issue 19326, 12 August 1926, Page 11
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113THE SKIRT AS A RELIC Evening Star, Issue 19326, 12 August 1926, Page 11
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