THE BLOUSE OF TO-DAY
One slight change with regard to the blouse is making itself felt. This represented by the fact that parti-col-oured alliances are no longer pennissibio. To wear a blue blouse with a black skirt, or a pink skirt with a grey frock —"bo quote two examples out of many—has become an almost unpardon-able-offence-against the canons of good taste, and. putting aside the consideration that there was more than a grain of comfort to the possessor of a fairly empty purse in tho realisation that a ■new blouse might play so many different parts, few people will regret that the piebald scheme.is about to ba tabooed. Coloured blouses must invariably match a coloured gown to tho fraction of a semi-tone, and the result is undoubtedly rjreat gain to the short and i?bout woman, wno unconsciously made all defects t?f figure glaringly evident: by the process of dividing herself into two portion®, so to speak.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6678, 28 November 1908, Page 12
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