WOMEN'S FASHIONS
A WAIL FROM BRADFORD TEXTILE IKDUBTP.Y HIT LATEST THING IN COATS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, January 12. (Received January 13, at 9.35 a.m.) A speaker at a meeting of the Bradford Textile Society, cojnplnining that the industry was heavily hit by women’s skimpy clothing, pointed out that it used to take two sheep to clothe a woman; now a silkworm could do it. Another curiosity of the spring fashion was the vogue of calfskin coats and sports suits. They were usually of a natural color, so it was pardonable if shortsighted people mistook women golfers in bovine garments for Jersey cows straying on the links.
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Evening Star, Issue 19455, 13 January 1927, Page 4
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107WOMEN'S FASHIONS Evening Star, Issue 19455, 13 January 1927, Page 4
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