THOSE LONG SKIRTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20669, 15 September 1930, Page 3

THOSE LONG SKIRTS.

Paris, according to the fashion-mongers, has definitely laid down the law that long skirts are to be "the fashion." But Paris did that last year. It was even "tried out" the year before that. Yet how far did this long-skirt vogue really go and will it materialise this year any more than it did last ? No. With the exception of the Ascot fiasco and a few society garden parties and fetes, long skirts have not "taken on" with the majority of women, and it is doubtful if they ever will, states a London fashion writer.

Look at the crowds in offices and in the streets, on the tennis courts and at the seaside! Take a walk round any crow do.! London suburb, cr in (he big cities or towns at the "shopping hour." There you will see thousands of women and girls. Not one in a hundred wears a long skirt. "You may take a horse to the water but you cannot make it drink," says an old proverb That seems to be the attitude of the majority of English girls and women toward tho French fashions. They look at the long skirts, discuss them and thinkabout them, and then—leavo them alone.

Every woman knows that long skirts itiako iter look older. Every girl who wants to "do things" can't be bothered with them.