FREEDOM IN DRESS
NEW WAE-TIME FASHION
LONDON, Sept. 21. Women are wearing trousers in England, the fashion being set by those enrolled for national service. The war has already given British women a new freedom in dress, comparable with the liberation from whalebone corsets, which came in the Great War. Women enrolled for national service have introduced tailored trousers, which now can be worn on all occasions, even in West End cabarets. They are being adopted throughout Britain. Trousers were worn by thousands of women, strolling at the week-end in London parks and streets, including buxom women wheeling prams. Blacks are worn in plain colours, with chalk stripes, or even floral materials. They range in price from 12s to £(i (is. Even the most timid women who normally would not wear slacks, have bought a pair for air-raids, and place them at the bedside with a torch, dressinggown and slippers.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 October 1939, Page 3
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