Women M.’sP. in Cotton.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 July 1930, Page 22 (Supplement)

Women M.’sP. in Cotton.

Following, the Queen’s example four women Al.’sP, appeared in the House of Commons on the opening day of the. National Cotton Week wearing dainty cotton frocks (says the Daily Mail). I The Duchess of Athol, usually very severely gowned, arrived first in a flimsy dress of grey and white, making a dainty foil to her soberly-attired men colleagues. Miss Susan Lawrence and Airs. Alay Hamilton, ALP., both wore black and white voile frocks, and Miss Picton-Turbevill, another Socialist member, was the fourth supporter. Miss Ellen Wilkinson, M.P., however, wrote to the secretary of the “Week” saying that she could not find a cotton dress of suitable design for severe House of Commons wear. She said in fact that she “could not get anything between household frocks and garden party wear in cotton.” The secretary replied to Aliss Wilkinson expressing regret, and told her that she and other lady M.’sP. could set a new fashion, and that, by supporting the movement, they could influence Dame Fashion, He promised that, if Miss Wilkinson would make known the features she thought necessary for a “House of Commons frock” the people of Lancashire would speedily make the right thing available at the right price.