Cant About Clothes

Ladies' Mirror, Volume 4, Issue 8, 1 February 1926, Page 42

Cant About Clothes

' I 'HE last ten years have taught -*■ women many things - among them the truth that “no woman is ugly if she is well dressed.” People with dull, kill-joy minds may prate, but walk along the streets to-day and what do you see? Not (for the most part) dowdily dressed women in frocks of ugly contour and gloomy colours. Not awkward hats that would fit no head or face on earth, trimmed incongruously with birds’ feathers. Not the once familiar black or brown woollen stockings ; nor clumsy and shapeless shoes; nor those unhygienic long skirts that collected the dirt like a broom. In their place struts a bewitching figurethe so-called boyish girl. Her costume is severely simple; its shape hanging naturally from the shoulders, its colour refreshingly bright. She is not trussed up like a fowl. Her so-called “pneumonia” blouse, survivor of a million libels,

has freed its wearer from the endless coughs and colds that lurked beneath its high-necked Victorian predecessor. Her cloche hat sits neatly on a cool, tidy and hairpin-less shingled head. Her short skirts are healthy and display the daintiest of silk stockings in charmingly light hues that “go with” frocks of almost any colour. And the old-fashioned boot, hot and usually unsightly, that was supposed to provide “support” for the instep (as if the bones of the foot are not natural support enough), is replaced by the shapeliest and airiest of shoes. Is the girl of 1925 more uniform than the girl of 1914? Yes, but is it not a uniformity to be proud of? And I, for one, hope she will not let her greatest friend and enemy, the dress designer persuade her to change in order to create a profitable demand for “the very latest.”