FEMININE FASHIONS.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13494, 13 June 1914, Page 5

FEMININE FASHIONS.

REFORM URGED BY WOMEN'S

CLU.BS

A CHICAGO CONFERENCE

New York, June 11

The General Federation of Women's Clubs advocated dress reform at the annual convention at Chicago. The speakers demanded that women wear dresses large enough to walk in without inconvenience. Thousands of women were ready to dress in a sane manner if manufacturers ■would allow them to do so.

Shop girls, it was stated, really made the fashions for society women. When the very latest Avas asked for, shop girls were always brought to give their ideas, and -women accordingly adopted them. If manufacturers assisted, reform could easily be effected.

Miss Grace Hutchins, costume designer at Columbia University, asserted that nowhere in the world had she seen such over-dressing as in the United States. The "hobble" w^s the supreme effoTt of French manufacturers to secure the silk trade for French hands. Narrow dresses cost German manufacturers the product of ten thousand looms annually. The speaker declared that every woman who wore immoral clothes was not necessarily immoral. Rather, they were thoughtless to an abnormal degree.

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