Wheels Within Wheels.

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 43, 9 May 1930, Page 24

Wheels Within Wheels.

| LOVERS of Dickens will remember how, in. "Bleak House,’ Messrs. Sheen and Gloss, the London silk mercers, were in the habit of whispering to wholesale firms that they knew the ways of women and could put over anything that was desired as the coming fashion. If that were true of the Victorian age, it seems less true of 1930, for the Messpg. Sheen and Gloss of to-day are trying to put over the new long trailing sifirts for day as well as evening wear, but they are meeting with a resistance from the modern woman that threatens to paralyse their efforts, as far as day-time wear is concerned. Mr. Sheen and Mr. Gloss are both scratching their heads and upbraiding the freedom of to-day, which finds expression in opposition to the fashions laid down by the world’s famous couturiers as essential. It is in vain that fashion experts, in the newspapers and elsewhere, bully and scold the women of to-day for their persistence in adhering to sensibly short skirts for day-time wear. The effect of the new styles on the "fema form divine" adds to their unpopularity,yespecially among the middle-aged, who, fantil now, could choose their own waist-line, and with a loose belt deftly conceal deficiencies, or perhaps abundancies, now only too apparent on the natural waistline.-"Mannequin."

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