SUITS OF ARMOUR.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 17773, 8 October 1927, Page 10

SUITS OF ARMOUR.

WOMEN'S SURRENDER TO FASHION. “.Many women walk about to-day, -on the low fine days available, in dresses of shimmering stuff tint are, in tact., exquisitely delicate suits of armour.’’ This statement was made to students at the fifth summer school at Cambridge (England t, organised by the Drapers’ Chamber of Trade, by Mr A. Mason, of Macclesfield. Mr Mason was punning out that in the lesser quality silks of to-day the fibre from ilie cocoon of the silkworm is often heavily impregnated with perchloride of tin to give them smartness of appearance and the quality of settling nicely on the fingers of the wearers. Continental manufacturers, Mr Mason said, were very clever at “weighting" silk, our own manufacturers being much less daring in the matter. Mr Mason gave a tip to housewives in general when he said that silks and artificial silks should never he ironed when dry or sprinkled with waver after washing, hut should be ironed when still damp all over. They should be only partly aired. Mr P. A. Best, of Messrs .1. Shoolbred and Co., London, mentioned that those fine old British textiles calicoes, longcloths. and muslinwere selling in declining numbers as women's garments lessened in number, diminished in size, and decreased in length. Mr Best thought there was no fear that fashions would he stereotyped by multiple firms.