MODERN DRESS

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 524, 20 April 1920, Page 2

MODERN DRESS

NEW HAT A TONIC, i QUAINT ANOMALJ^tNv/-^ Lady Maud Parry, in on "Clothing and -ts Influence,"" has some novel theories of present day fashions. ~ • '.-.. r_ , ir "Bare backs are fashionable forV evening wear, because women expose their necks in the day time, and they must show that there is a (difference between their day and evsn- | ing- frocks. I Jo not find it illuminating to sit heind a row of bare ■■'■ backs at the theatre because I amr ,i inartistic enough to think that the' nude is improved by drapery." Modern dress in other respects she fimi.d ; very satisfactory. "You slip it on over your head,' she said, without: any buttons or hooks, and -'t suit*^ - the slight and the stoat aliire.'' Dr. Elizabeth Sloan Chesser at the Institute of Hygiene, expressed the opinion that a new hat had a gieater stimuhtive value than '*& tonic. This raised many, covert smiles among the ladies present. In spite of her emphasis on the,, i value of a new nut, the lecturer dt; nied the theory that women ytoTB r more fascinated by clothes than men, It was a fallacy without foundation. she said. "All through the animalspecies the female is less beautiful, less vain, and less influenced by personal adornment than the male." "Too many {ferments are worn by the poor, and too few by the rich."' Dr. Chesser declared. 'There are mothers who sew their children up in winter* »-c>otiies about October. neither change the clothes n-*r bathe the children until March."