WOMEN'S FASHIONS.
WAR ON LONG SKIRTS.
(Received March 15, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, March 14
Tho National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship has inaugurated a definite revolt, against long skirts for women as being a reaction against their personal comfort and physical liberty.
Tho union carried a resolution to the effect that tho fashion was reminiscent of tho years of women's political disfranchisement. It urged women who valued their liberty to refuse to follow, like unquestioning sheep, tho arbitrary decrees of fashion.
Mrs. Stocks, » Manchester justice of the peace, said that when she read of women at Ascot walking with creamy foam around their ankles she thought the same substa-ncn must be in their heads. " If we let them tie our legs,"' she remarked, " our hands will soqn be tied again." Mrs. Stocks added: "The persons who should take a lead in this question are the Duchess of York and Lady Diana Duff Cooper. At least one lady in England choose 3 her own fashions and sticks to them, and that is the Queen."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20823, 16 March 1931, Page 9
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