CHANGES OF FASHION.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 16808, 18 March 1915, Page 6

CHANGES OF FASHION.

" Times " and Sydney " Sun " Services, LONDON, March It".

A controversy rages regarding the somersault in fashions for women, many writers decrying the fuller skirt. Some correspondents urge that women in these anxious times deserve the consolation afforded by new dresses. Others declare that drastic changes are cruel and that women with small incomes will be unable to buy new clothes and will be compelled to continue wearing tight skirts, advertising their poverty. Changes in fashion, it is contended, only benefit the dressmakers.

A Paris writer says that age and, ankles must decide the length of the skirt, which slim-ankled maidens are wearing short. A woman trust look 6upplo, with a loose waist, a free chest, and properly balanced footwear. . She ought to achieve the movements of Diana, instead of the ungraceful walk caused by the tight skirt.