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The paraders and picketers against the era of long skirts [TIME, Sept. 15] may as well save their breath. The words "new silhouette" for the first time in years having a literally accurate meaning, the trend is only a natural demand for more flattery in the matter of feminine clothes...
As for longer skirts, any wise and well-dressed woman knows it is more appealing to conceal rather than reveal.
¶ From the pulpit of Washington's All Souls Unitarian Church, the Rev. A. Powell Davies denounced longer skirts. Long skirts are "immoral," he declared, because they "will deprive the shivering people of Europe of the wool they need to keep them warm in a coal-less winter."
In an effort to concur with current fashions at every turn, the editors of Radditudes, the Radcliffe monthly, last week lengthened their skirts, bared their shoulders and changed the name of their publication to the more modish Signature.
*In her definitive study, Recurring Cycles of Fashion, Agnes Brooks Young discovered only three major styles in women's dresses in the last 200 years: back fullness (the bustle), tubular skirts (the basic fashion from 1900 through 1937), and the bell skirt of pre-Civil War days. Each cycle...