VAGARIES OF FASHION
TASK FOR PSYCHOLOGISTS JUDGE LOOKS FOR GUIDANCE. LONDON, March 11. Psychology as a factor in women’s dress was discussed in the King’s Court hy Mr Justice M'Cardle, who asked who was really responsible for female fashions. Ho said to a witness, a loading West End male costumier : “You are an expert?” “ I mav be an expert,” replied the witness. “But not an expert in women’s fickleness.” onoth the judge. “Women do not do it all—the big designers are men. Why do they so prodigallv scrap materials and ideas? Is it the changing public bste, or do women demand it? If so, what determines the public female taste ?” The witness replied that he did not know, “Fashion lacks psychologists,” said the judge. “I have never met a psychologist in the dress trade. _ There ought to be some. It would avoid the present avmalling losses in the trade. The fashion expert of the Daily Mail states that in addition to scarlet fashions coloured lingerie will ho worn in orange, red, purple, magenta, and magpie, with corsets to match.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18512, 24 March 1922, Page 5
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