WOMEN AND TROUSERS
FRENCHWOMAN’S CASE HEARD IN COURT LAWYER’S CUNNING APPEAL PARIS, Thursday. When Madame Morris’s case against the Feminine Sporting Federation was opened, the defendant was represented by two women lawyers. The plaintiff’s male counsel turned to the women advocates, and said: “You women are in the forefront of women’s progress, and favour women’s rights, therefore you should favour women wearing trousers.” The women advocates smiled, and shook their heads. They argued in their turn that it was unnecessary to adopt masculine costume in sport. Further, they said, Madame Morris’s striking personality might influence other sporting girls to wear trousers. Judgment was reserved. Madame Violette Morris, a famous French motorist, and an all-round athlete, is determined to fight to the last against her expulsion from the Feminine Sporting Federation because she insisted on wearing trousers on a sports ground. She is claiming £BOO damages.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 909, 28 February 1930, Page 9
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