BRAKES ON FASHION.
BRITISH HUSBANDS CENSURED. LONDON Dec 26. "British husbands are the chief stumbling block to the project to make London supplant Paris as the world's fashion centre," says Lady Duff-Gor-don. "They will not allow their wives and daughters to adopt a new fashion until they see that every other woman has adopted it. Women of every nationality—Russian, Italian, Argentinian, Chilian—are to be seen in Pans wearing striking clothes, and their menfolk are the better pleased the more strikingly they are dressed. This gives new fashions a chance. "Most Englishwomen are too selfconscious and have not sufficient daring to wear clothes as worn in lans. Their husbands moke them self-con-scious, and therefore we must first get the co-operation of the husbands.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 1210, 7 January 1925, Page 10
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122BRAKES ON FASHION. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 1210, 7 January 1925, Page 10
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