Right Dress
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WHIM-WHAM
{Simplification of clothing is being undertaken in New Zealand, and progress has already been made. . ."-the Hon. D. G. Sullivan, Minister of Supply, in an interview.] AR’S Exigencies, it appears, Are going to modify our Dresy And prune with sharp official Shears All kinds of fashionable Excess. Wr not the least-Alarm I note, Nor injured libertarian Wrath, This Move to cut the Country’s Coat According to the Country’s Cloth. FoR Fashion is a Tyranny Far worse than legal Interference, And it permits no Man to be The Author of his own Appearance. if these sorry Times require Such Measures, I shall be contented To wear some simplified Attire, Nor feel the least Bit regimented. BY: better‘ still some Regulation ad Foe could be framed with ° Allowing me a Dispensation To dress precisely as I please! H, then my simplified Attire Would set a Standard hard to beat One Garment, in the Roman Way, No Socks, and Sandals on my Feet: ND when the Weather’s mild or hot JI would not hesitate at all To g0 as simply clad-Why not?As Adam did before the Fall!
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 165, 21 August 1942, Page 6
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188Right Dress New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 165, 21 August 1942, Page 6
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