CYCLE OF FASHION

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 476, 9 March 1933, Page 7

CYCLE OF FASHION

Of course, men say women never cease to chatter about fashion, but then when they have such a stereotyped way of dressing them'selves, how can they be made to feol in sympathy with ;all the trials and tribulations which attend feminine attire. I've often heard_ exasperated hushands, when taxed hy their wives as to. how she ishall have her next frock made, say, "What do you want to get a new dress for; that one you got last year is quite good enough — rwhat's wrong with dt?" Then, of course, hubhy has to be made to see that what was smart in last year's fashions is potstively de trop in the pattern books of to-day. W© are gradualy drifting hackward instead of forward in the dictates of fashion, and Miss 1903 more than ever recalls the Yictorian fads and. fancies which Miss 1830 !So demurely affected; there is a quality of 'SopMstication in her very air which constituteis a world of difference, yet there is no denying the close' similarity between the two fashions a century apart. One has only to stUdy history and fashion repeats' itself unblushingly, and yelfc with just that difference which is "everything" to the modern mind. Perhaps it is our greater freedom of niental outlook and our unrestricted lives, our loye of sport, and our app:arent houndlesis energy which make these "new-fashdoned old fashions look very different from what they did in the days from which We have "borrowed" -them. And so this evedasting eyele of con-

glomerated periods which we calL "fashion" goes on sporting a fancy for this or that epoeh, soffcening.what was an incongruity in Edwardian of Ydctorian days into a pleasiiig conceit; and lahelled to-day as "the lat•est." MARY ANNE.