The Englishwoman's Clothes
SHOULD judge, from my observation so far, that there must be thousands of British females every year who are absentmindedly collected by the laundryman, Their universal ineptitude about clothes fills me with a great pity and an overwhelming desire to take them in hand. But I know in advance it would be fruitless, The trouble goes deeper than having no eye for and no feeling for colour, though they are as dewily unaware of line and colour as an orang-outang. The fundamental difficulty is that they are ashamed of having legs and waists and hips, and so they muffle themselves up as if their bodies were something that had to be smuggled through the Customs. I suppose the English reply to this criticism is that American women spend too much time and energy on their clothes, which I think is true. But what do Englishwomen spend their time and energy on instead? I ask it, who have eaten their cooking.-Margaret Halsey in "With Malice Towards Some."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 132, 2 January 1942, Page 38
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169The Englishwoman's Clothes New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 132, 2 January 1942, Page 38
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