Short Skirts.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 June 1922, Page 4

Short Skirts.

LONDON, April 20. j Warned by Paris fashion-makers that skirts are to be longer, women are everywhere asking: W ill the new long skirt drive out the short skirt? Must we go hack to the Victorian days in obedience to a new fashion ? Most of them sincerely say, We hope not. Mr 'Edmund Dulas, fantastic and delicate colourist, illustrator of books, and caricaturist of modern men and women, raised a new point in this Battle of the Skirts yesterday.

The short Skirt, lie declared, is the only fit garment for a new type of Eng-lish-womcn.

“For ton years,” said Mr Dulse,

have been watching the evolution of a new type of Englisli-woman. It is a great mistake to believe that national types are constant. They vary quite quickly. I no longer see, the tall, fair and stately English woman of 1890. The new type is dark in the colour of her hair And skin, small and' slight, with dark cy.es, definitely exotic, one might say Oriental, limbs well modelled. There are better * legs about. They can and do wear the short skirt with ease and elegance.

“I find the new type very agreeable, and Hie new short dresses even more so. There is colour in the short skirt.

and the material used is very decorative and useful to the artist. I like the little panniers on the hips and hope they will remain ; hut crinolines—no. I am not in favour of them. “T see, thanks to the short skirl and the new woman, a great improvemen in English dress. On the whole women ale very nicely dressed right down to their stockings and shoes. Never diil I see so many well-dressed women, no matter what their calling, in London as nt the present day. The typist, the shop-giil, the lady’s maid, are all very neat and charming. “True, the short skirt is not very kind to some women : hut the long skirt is even less kind. The long dress can only, be worn by the tall and stately. For the short and petite type it becomes at once clumsy and dowdy. I. am all for the short skirt.”