THE TYRANNY OF STYLE—THE CONSEQUENT CRAMPING OF SOUL.

White Ribbon, Volume 25, Issue 297, 18 March 1920, Page 11

THE TYRANNY OF STYLE —THE CONSEQUENT CRAMPING OF SOUL.

“How long, O I.ord, how long? Speaking of hobbles and skirts, will women submit tamely to the arbitary rulings of styles, which are coining as per usual from France and New York. This spring, the ridiculousness of this tyranny is just a bit more apparent, beiause we have two of these ridings, each of which claims to be the correct thing. In skirts, New York says they must be long and hobble. Paris says they must be short, and not too tight. \\ hat is to he the result ? One may expect the slaves of fashion to now d’vide themselves into the Shorts and Longs. Nav, there may even be a Modcrationist Party, known as the Between"; but when, oh when are we to have the party that will sa\ to the makers of fashions, “We are not apes, we . re women, and we desire to make and to wear our own styles of clothing?” Do we hear the Haven croak that never will this thing be, or is there a Bluebird of Promise which says that in the year 2500 or thereabouts women wib shed the voke of stvle and free themselves once and for all from the tyranny of fashion ?- Exrhange. ,