MEN AS DRESS DESIGNERS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 270, 27 April 1917, Page 4 (Supplement)

MEN AS DRESS DESIGNERS.

FASHION'S DEMANDS ON THEM IN WAR TIME.

"You may make omnibus conductors, munition workers, farm bailiffs, and doctors of women, but you will never turn them into good dress designers," said fashion expert recently. He was reforJng to the case in which a male designer of women's costumes had pleaded unsuccessfully for exemption from military ■service at a London tribunal. "There are not half a dozen women Tvorld-knowri as great dress designers, lie went on. "Here and there you .the brill'ant exceptions, but they aro few. While a woman's eye is excellent for detail a "man seems better able to ob tain line and general effect. As tor tailor cost Mines, no chic woman would weir a coat and skirt cut by one of her own .sex.

" I quite agree that in war time 110 man ought to be dress designing. Ihe greatest Paris artists are fighting, while those over military age are designing, not new fashions, but women's uniforms and simple dresses and mourning.