SKIMPY CLOTHING
WOMEN’S PRESENT FASHIONS.
SILK WORM COULD REPLACE TWO SHEEP LONDON. Jan. 1.2. A speaker at a meeting of "the Bradford Textile Society, complaining that the industry had been heavily hit by women’s skimpy clothing, pointed out that- it used to take two sheep to clothe a woman—now a silk worm could do it. Another curiosity of the spring fashion was the vogue of calfskin coats and sports suits. They were usually in the natural color, so it was pardonable if short-sighted people mistook women golfers in bovine garments for Jersey cows straying on the links.— A. and N.Z.C.A.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10305, 14 January 1927, Page 3
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100SKIMPY CLOTHING Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10305, 14 January 1927, Page 3
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