WOMEN'S APPAREL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 178, 27 January 1914, Page 5

WOMEN'S APPAREL.

SLIT SKIUS BARKED AT MILITAUV FUNCTIONS. iy Cable—Press Association—Copyright Vienna, January 25. Field-Marshal Tckete, commander ot the Budapest garrison, has announced that women have over-stepped the limits of propriety by appearing in slit skirts. Military men must inform the women of their families that these are Hot permitted at military functions. A YANKEE PROFESSOR, i POSES AS FASHION EXPERT. New York, January 25. Professor Taylor, of Pennsylvania, n.u;ntains that women at more than twenty years of age, in order to keep the body- shapely, must fill the place of the clothing previoasly worn, while also reuuiring more heat because their •.•lothes are thinner.

A TACTFUL UTTERANCE. Sydney, January 2(i. A big gathering celebrated the anniversary of the first Anglican service held in Australia 120 years ago. The Primate, in an address, said it was sometimes said that the womanhood of Australia forgot something of the dignity of their womanhood in decorum cf manner and decorum of dress. He did not belie.vo it was true as a whole, if it were true now and again, but 'it was certain that the women of Australia Would rise and take care that these things should not be, because of the solemn charge they had for the future.