EXTREMES IN FASHION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19061, 4 July 1925, Page 6 (Supplement)

EXTREMES IN FASHION.

There are two extremes in modern dressing—the tailored and the fluffed, the mannish and the ultra-feminine, says a writer in an exchange. Some of the girls you see on the street are so rnannishly clad in such really tailored things that you can hardly tell thern from the boys themselves. To begin with, their hair is shingled so short that their heads look like their brothers'. Then, they don clothes of the plainest type, of the most uncompromising cut, and make themselves look more like boys than ever. They have hats of plain blocked felt entirely without trimming. Their suits are strictly tailored. Their shoes are plain oxfords. Their blouses are silk, but tailored in finish. Their neck scarves are printed in colours no iiioro vivid than a conservative man's would be. Now, there is another extreme of youthful maiden tins season, who refuses steadily to have anything at all to do with tailored types and mannish styles. She wears her hair l<">ng, as her mother did before her. She parts it'in the middle, draws it down over both ears and makes a broad, bumpy knot in the back. She wears earrings, and leans to necklaces. The her clothes are provided with flounces and rufHings, lace collars and ribbons. They are not overdone, but they retain unmistakably that feminine character which they regard as their own inalienable right and refuse to do without. These two types are met any day looking as unlike as. two girls can look. Each one is true to her own type or what she thinks is her own type—-more truthfully, what happen to be her feelings at the particular moment.