Designers Criticised

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18545, 3 November 1934, Page 10

Designers Criticised

AS Anna Sten sees it, a woman is better able to work when she does not attract attention to herself as a woman. “Femininity—sex, if you wistr isn’t an asset to a woman working for a living,” the blonde Russian movie actress, said in Hollywood on August 20. “It’s.a distraction.” She criticised modern designers of women’s clothes as over-emphasising sex. • • “I think designers should nol spend their time thinking up creations that do nothing but expose a girl’s figure,” she said. “There are many beautiful dresses and costumes that could be made without accenting a Vomau.’s sex. ■ ‘■lf she is a charming woman, the fact will be known even though she is clothed in burlap sacks.” .Miss iSten looks upon the modern woman primarily as a worker —a’ “lighter in-,the battle for existence,” as she puts it.. “Men and women,” she said, ‘should be able to work beside each other, unconscious of the fact that they are men and women, but thinking onlv of their work.