PUBLIC-SPIRITED WOMEN.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1533, 31 August 1912, Page 10

PUBLIC-SPIRITED WOMEN.

• The organised effort to niaVo London art originating centre of ieniinino fashion, and thus to throw off the thrall oi is prospering hteadily, if ( S.owly» writoa the English correspondent of the .uel-, bourne "Ago," It is conducted by the; Ladies' All-British Fabrics and EWwm Association, which includes mnny lntiucn--tial society women, and, by.tho lioy.il School of Art V-odle Work and similar bodies. A general desire ?■" sist home industries—'which the Que.u alto favours in conspicuous manner at •every opportunity—has given a national character to what might otherwise b« understood as merely a move 111. Had# later extravagances of Paris art in dress have created in this countrv a bias towards greater .simplicity and a "belief among many Englishwomen that after all they can be better ;smted in London than in the French capital. The have -promised to give a practical m-oof of their faith by personally assisting in a novel exhibition of mado dresses which is about to * held in the Roval Botanic Gardens at P a V" Evcrvthing shown will be of British d<> sign "and manufacture. Efen Russian and "Hungarian" cmbrmd-eries are now mado in London, and tho imitations are said to be perfect. t , ■ , A number of society women has ioi nnteered to act as mannequins f'-r the Braettximg ing season the f T$ R it? toA m afgflysA?if«fWw» city.