"CLOTHES MAD."

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9811, 12 June 1914, Page 5

"CLOTHES MAD."

SHOP GIRL IS REALLY THE FASHION-MAKER. AMERICAN WOMEN WANT TO BANISH HOBBLE. (Bi EUCTBIO TBUQUrH-CoriBIOHT.) (Pa Pbbbb Amoctatotw.) Received June 12. 8.30 a.m. NEW YORK, June 11. The General Federation of) Women'* Clubs in Chicago advocated: dress reform at the annual convention. Speakers demanded that women should wear dresses large enough to walk fin without inconvenience. Thousands of women were ready to drees in a sane : manner if the manufacturers would allow them. The shop-girl really made the fashions for society women. When they asked tor the very latest the shop-gin's always brought out their idea of the lajest fashions and women accordingly adopted them. If'manufacturers a6SK ted the reform it would be easily effectecl. Miss Grace Hutchins/the costume designer at Columbia Tniversity, ai«erted that American women were 'clothes mad. Nowhere else in the world had she seen such overdressing as in the United States. The hobble was tlie supreme) effort of French manufacturers to secure the silk trade in French hands. Narrow dresses had cost German manufacturers the product of ten thousand looms annually. A speaker declared that every woman j who wore immoral clothes was not necessarily immoral, but rather thoughtless to an abnormal degree.