WOMEN’S DRESS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXV, Issue 4699, 16 May 1924, Page 2

WOMEN’S DRESS.

UNATTRACTIVE UNIFORMITY. EFFORT TO INDUCE ORIGINALITY. Milliners and dressmakers in London and Paris are trying to induce women to be more original, or, rathei, more individual, in their dress. For some unexplained reason women are wearing clothes of a sameness which conveys the monotonous impression of uniform. It consists of bar-shoes, flesh-coloured stockings, long, embroidered dark coat, cloche hat. with the regulation stumpy umbrella, string of pearls, and handkerchief scarf, plus- small flat bag. Are women losing a sense of personality . fuch a degree of uniformity has long characterised women’s dress in America ; it is an unattractive innovation .in England. Curiously, too, while the present sanction of fashion offers a great elasticity in permissible stvles, the note of variety is so seldom struck. And it must be obvious—since women’s form and features are not cast in one mould —that if all women dress alike they cannot all be looking their best. Why is the obvious so often overlooked ?

The art of dress is in danger if women resign every opportunity of expressing personality in external appearance and become mere uniform items of a type.