Antiquated Newness
THOROUGHLY enjoyed 2YA’s Home Science talk on "20th Century Fashions"-~a homey blend of the nostalgic and the commonsensical. Now I am used to common sense from the Home Science faculty, but it is seldom they pick a topic which gives such scope to their undoubted sensibility, sensibility proved by the fact that they inted no finger of scorn at the quaint gures We cut in the years between the wars. "Do you remember the year we all wore crownless hats?" asked the speaker, and sure enough, I did remember, though that particular Easter bonnet would otherwise never have risen to the status of qa memory. When it came to the New Look, however, sense was encouraged at the expense of sensibility. "What is this New Look anyway?" demanded the speaker, and proceeded, to analyse it ruthlessly (the longer length of 1934, the Victorian tippet, back-interest from the bustleera), thus proving herself spiritually akin to Solomon and to Marie Antoinette’s milliner, who is said to have said that there is nothing new except what has become antiquated. And the speaker’s assumption that her listeners would placidly bide their time till fashion’s pendulum swung back was flattering in its assumption that we too were women of sense who would neither leap nor new-look,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 484, 1 October 1948, Page 8
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213Antiquated Newness New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 484, 1 October 1948, Page 8
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