Cameron, photo. PIONEERS OF FASHION IN BLENHEIM AND FEILDING. Amid a chorus of unreasoning condemnation it is time that a ray of sanity should be injected into the controversy on the haremskirt. The public disapproval is a mark of a general stupidity that still engages gleefully in hopeless battles, and that has learned nothing from a century of continuous defeat. For when were women ever known to abandon a fashion under the lash of ridicure, or to discard a garment because the world laughed? And why should there be either resistance or protest? Surely not In defence of feminine modesty, for to the unobstructed eye it is evident that the harem skirt is the first really modest garment that women have worn for a decade. It may be, after all, that the harem skirt will not find favour, but its failure will not be due to male opposition, which never yet had the smallest effect. In the meantime, all honour to these brave pioneers, who are willing not only to defy the mob, but In the privacy of their bedrooms to reverse the custom of centuries and to dress feet first.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 17, 26 April 1911, Page 30

Cameron, photo. PIONEERS OF FASHION IN BLENHEIM AND FEILDING. Amid a chorus of unreasoning condemnation it is time that a ray of sanity should be injected into the controversy on the haremskirt. The public disapproval is a mark of a general stupidity that still engages gleefully in hopeless battles, and that has learned nothing from a century of continuous defeat. For when were women ever known to abandon a fashion under the lash of ridicure, or to discard a garment because the world laughed? And why should there be either resistance or protest? Surely not In defence of feminine modesty, for to the unobstructed eye it is evident that the harem skirt is the first really modest garment that women have worn for a decade. It may be, after all, that the harem skirt will not find favour, but its failure will not be due to male opposition, which never yet had the smallest effect. In the meantime, all honour to these brave pioneers, who are willing not only to defy the mob, but In the privacy of their bedrooms to reverse the custom of centuries and to dress feet first.