Tea, Cocktails, and Skirts

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 45, 23 May 1930, Page 39

Tea, Cocktails, and Skirts

ACOORDING to the ‘latest advices received from London, there is one war the League of Nations is powerless to abate, for. the "battle of the skirts" continues to tage furiously. Famous dress-houses hold exhibitions: and parades of mannequins . every afternoon and evening, at which ‘te and cocktails are dispensed, while the latest in flowing gowns is displayed’ . to reluctantly admiring onlookers. For evening, and even for smart afternoon wear the majority of "chic". . women are already convinced of the. beauty and grace of the trailing and trained gowns, but. the favour in which the shorter'skirt is held -for'’ morning and outdoor ‘occasions dies: hard with British women. It is cer- | tain, however, that for the smartest of ‘all outdoor functions, to wit, Ascot week, long frocks will’be ‘de rigueur," albeit of voile,. Nottingham .lace and’ other cotton materials. . . The sinister part of the return to long dresses is carefully kept in the background-that it entails a return to corsets, artfully referred to. as "foundation garments" and, further, petticoats! A'lady who hds recently returned from a visit to the Old Country, while admitting that the long gowns hold ° sway there in. increasing numbers. sees no reason why New Zealand women should hamper themselves because it is "the fashion" on the other’ side of the world, but I am thinking that much of women’s greatly talkedof emancipation will give way under, the ordeal, and where personal adorn--ment is concerned, many of us will be found "reverting to type."