TROUSERED FREEDOM FOR WOMEN BY 1925.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15270, 19 July 1920, Page 9

TROUSERED FREEDOM FOR WOMEN BY 1925.

LONDON June l_.-*-Trousered freedom for women, long-sought revolution launched by world-famous Dr. Mary Walker m the United States a generation ago, will at last come into its own if a rasnion revolt, being agitated here by Miss Mary Wilson, prominent designer, succeeds. Miss Wilson predicts women's sartorial emancipation by 1925. Already, former war service women, farmerettes, conductorettes, elevator girls and othei women whom the war forced Into men's positions and who havo continued, tnenwork into peace days have, permanently adopted masculine garments. Several of the advanced spring models of the great fashion artists give evidences of the nre'dicted revolution, displaying distinct trousers under their very brief skirts. The revolution is presented m. Miss Gertrude Jenntng!s new play at the Little Theatre, "jlusbands for All," displaying women's garments of 1025, designed by Mis s Wilson. They are a compromise between the severity of masculine garments and the femininity of Early Victorian dresses. In 10.5 tailored coat and skirt will have become converted to an overcoat and trousers "shaped like flower petals, with flowered watered silk waistcoat. Servants m black and white attire or even neat uniforms will be obsolete, and thc domestic' workers of th<j day, no longer labelled cooks or housemaids, will do yrtieir duties m casejnent cloth trousers, flowered cretonne bodices -.and caps Itkd a munitioneer's head-covering. The change m women's evening dress is most startling of all. The dancer's desire -Jor; freedom of limbs becomes realiseo: when taffeta trousers, tight and finished with frills, appear beneath a bell-shaped .tunic. This costume, worn with a loosb evening cloak,, and finished by the addition of a long horn-topped c,ane gives' thc 1925 woman the appearance ' of an! original Beau Brummel.