Taste and Fashion
The striking thing about fashions is that they change, and in women’s dress the change is so obvious that the word "fashion" has come to be almost confined to changes in feminine costume. The middle-aged among us may remember the days when our mothers, about to cross the road, were compelled to relinquish our small hands to gather up their voluminous skirts from the ground. As they did so there was a rustle of innumerable silk petticoats underneath, and even a glimpse of lace frill. The old-fashioned moralist’s view-a view not quite extinct among the upper clergy — was that fashion changed because woman was incurably frivolous and inconstant. "La donna e mobile. . , ." But fashion’s changes are never entirely arbitrary; they always have some inner historical significance, so that the inadequacy of the female character cannot be’ a complete explanation.-James Laver.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 98, 9 May 1941, Page 43
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143Taste and Fashion New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 98, 9 May 1941, Page 43
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