PETTICOAT RULE
MARGOT THINKS THAT PETTICOATS SHOULD RETURN THE MODERN GIRL. London, July 29. A plea for the petticoat of old is nxade by Iady Oxford — the faxnous Margot — in discussing modern girls. "I view with grave concern the modern girl's fashions and habits, and wonder whether, when she marries, she will provide the proper spirit for her home, which is the only foundation of human progress," writes Lady Oxford in .an article, 'Then and Now.' "Although drixxking is more fashionable than f orxnerly among both rich and poor, to-day's cocktail bottle and pyjama parti'es are less intoxicating, but equally noisy, dull, and injurious as the champagne of my youth. I wonder if the belief in equality of the sexes is to the advantage of the modern girl? "Lady Tree, widow of the faixxous actor-manager, onee asked a famous lawyer if h'e liked blue stoclcings, and the lawyer x'eplied : 'Yes, when hidden under a petticoat.' That is an object lesson, for the xxxodern gixi who is not 'hidden under a petticoat' expresses a not sufficiently interesting self too soon with too much complacency."
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 315, 31 August 1932, Page 3
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