BACK TO ROMANCE.
CURLS AGAIN. There is reason to believe that romance is coming back. Saying that she would ne'er consent, woman has " fallen " again for the long frock. Even curls have begun to appear in London on faces that were devoid of all ornaments save the art of the powder-puff and lipstick. At the theatre, where fashion is always a little ahead of the times, have been seen ladies who might have stepped out of a picture by Wintcrhalter or Chalon, so sweetly Victorian were they in style and demeanour.
A few years ago there was much talk of feminine independence. It achieved the vote, and gave women the freedom that we were told by a noisy minority they wanted. We hear far less of this freedom nowadays. Would it annoy the feminists very much to assert that the majority of women really prefer to be dependent, that they prefer rather to be women than to imitate men in their multifarious efforts and ambitions ? The novelists now tell us that romance is coming back, but the truth is that romance had never gone very far away. The cynicism of the past decade, with its typical plays and novels, was superficial. The romantic revival is overdue. Women have already anticipated it in their frocks and hats.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20958, 22 August 1931, Page 6 (Supplement)
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