THE LENGTH OF SKIRTS.
LONDON CONTROVERSY. London, April 23. The Battle of the Skirts has begun in Britain. Leading artists and society women are joining in the controversy. •Sir William Orpen, the famous painter, has drawn for the London Daily Mail some pictures of short skirts showing trim legs and bulky legs. He accompanies the sketch with a dissertation. on fashionable dressing which shoudl show, he says, the best and not the worst of woman. The Hon. Mrs. Fortescue, who has a dress salon at Hampstead, a fashionable centre, when interviewed, said: —“Skirts are going to be much longer. I am very glad. I think these Paris designs are intended for French women. With, their small feet they can wear short skirts, but I do not think English women can.” Sir James Shannon, president of the Society of Portrait Painters, regards the present style as very beautiful, and would be sorry to see skirts touching the ground Ascot costumes are expected to set a new style for skirts, which will be at least 2 inches longer.
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 May 1922, Page 6
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176THE LENGTH OF SKIRTS. Taranaki Daily News, 6 May 1922, Page 6
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