SLIT SKIRTS UNFASHIONABLE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1223, 21 March 1914, Page 4

SLIT SKIRTS UNFASHIONABLE.

Paris, Mafch iS. The Paris fashion houses have banned the slit skirt. Madame Paquin declares that it is already out ot fashion. For one comely limb revealed there were nine that bad been belter hidden. Another prominent dressmaker states that the American and not the French women were the ones who created the demand for indecent dresses. “The Parisienne knows just how far to go. For our American customers nothing seems too daring.’’ SPIT SKIRT STRIKE. Vienna, Jan. 30. Field-Marshal Baron Feteke, commander of the Budapest garrison, issued a new regulation last week forbidding women to appear at military balls and similar functions in slitskirts, The Hungarian women, however, refused en masse to attend the ball at the Budapest military casino. The function was consequently postponed. One of the indignant women in an interview says : “We obey the commands of the mode imposed by Paris or Budapest, but not by the commander of the garrison. We like the slit skirts. Besides, we have got the dresses and we cannot afford to buy fresh cues every few days like the wives of generals/’ She seemed overjoyed at the idea of young officers being forced to dance with women whose age corresponds with their husbands’ exalted rank.

"Could you lend me such a thing as a thermometer ?” she asked of the last friend she could visit. "I haven’t got one,” was the answer ; then, after a thoughtful pause, "Stay, I’ve got a barometer. You can have that.” "I don’t know if it will do. I can hardly put a barometer under his arm to take his temperature. But I’ll take it and see.” So she bore the barometer away home, and in due lime laid it on her husband’s chest. And immediately the hand went round to "Very Dry !”