SKIRTS SHORTER
DUE TO THE WAR. The last war took women's skirts from ankle length up to three inches above the ankle bone; 9 months of this war have already knocked an inch off them. Last August they were 16 inches off the ground; 17 inches off the ground is the new official length. And that you will find is right up to knee level. (This goes for London skirts; in Paris they are wearing them an inch or so longer). The designers have made a good job of the new clothes: difficulties of lack of staff and rising prices seem only to have sharpened their ideas. You'll find the clothes easy to look at, easy to wear. Tney are not military, and they are feminine. Feminine, that is, because they emphasise the lines of your figure, not because they are all frilled up. They are the kind of clothes, says Lelong, that men like to see women wear.
There’s plenty of fulness about the skirts still, but the bustle idea Ins quietened down to discreet flares, putting the flare on back or hips rather than in front. Pleats are right out; who’s got time to iron in pleats these days anyway?
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1940, Page 8
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