FICKLE WOMEN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 21028, 12 November 1931, Page 5

FICKLE WOMEN.

WHAT THEY ALL WANT. [I'KOM OCR OWN' CORRESPONDENT.] LONDON*. Oct. 8. In an address before the Halifax Textile Society, Mr. E. IT. Syrnonds, president of the British Fashions and Fabrics Bureau, asked: Are women the slaves of fashion, and is fashion fickle? " From the days of the Garden of Eden," he said, "Women have never been content with any one form of costume for a period of long duration. It" women had remained satisfied with lig leaves, fashion creators would have had to go in for gardening. " Had such been the case, 1 am sure manufacturers would have produced for women's wear many gracefully shaped and beautifully coloured fig leaves. " Nowadays women are more selfassertive and of more independent judgment than their forebears. Modern women are definitely fashion and colour conscious, and you won't find them allowing manufacturers, fashion creators, or any other members of the male community to dictate to them as to the kind of goods they should buy.

" They decide for themselves what they would like to buy, and they are not at all nervous in saying outright and in very blunt language if they don't like either a fashion, a fabric, or anything else. You have heard it said that women arc the slaves of fashion, and that fashion is fickle. Don't believe either. It is the women who are fickle, not fashion. And fashion is the slave, of women in catering for their love of changes. There is no appreciable difference between the style puny, of view of the society woman and the mill girl. It. is purely a. question of relativity. They all want the latest stylo."