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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 29TH, 1912.
A PLEA FOR STANDARD DRESS.
(OF FRANCIS GRIMBLE IN THE." PALL MALL GAZETTE."}
It was a woman's idea thrown out, after a dinner-party, in consequence of certain heart-burnings caused by a debate on the eternal question, Who was the best-dressed woman in the room?
"We women," she said, "shall never be quite happy until we are compelled to wear uniforms,
Are you quite sure," I ventured to ask, that you will be quite happy even then?" Some of us will, at any rate," was the
reply,
But which of you? The ones who are allowed to design the uniforms?
"No doubt those will be the happlest; but they won't be the only happy ones by any means. I daresay the rich women wouldn't like it; but I know lois of poor women who would be pleased."
I wondered; but my companion would not allow that it was a case for wandering-she
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had made up her mind. I pointed out to her NEW SHADES that she seemed to be demanding a revival of sumptuary laws; but she was not to be NEW STRAWS. frightened by the formidable phrase.
NEW BOWLERS. "We have Why not?" she asked. sumptuary laws for men, haven't we? Un- written laws, I mean, of course?"
And so, of course, we have-unwritten sumptuary laws which we obey so much as a matter of course that we never give them a thought. Rich men submit to them quite cheerfully, and poor men would only laugh at them if they did not. A rich man is as little ashamed is a poor man to be seen more than once, by the same company, in the same dress suft. A poor man is never deterred from accepting an invitation to dinner by the fear that he, in his sober. customary black, may be outshone by a millionaire ar- And rayed like Solomon in all his glory! there are other happy restrictions of the kind, of which my companion reminded me.
"However rkh you might be," she said, "you wouldn't try to dazzle your fellow-man by putting costly ostrich feathers in your silk hat."
...
I admitted that the temptation to do such
a thing had not occurred to me; and a fir ther catechism on the same fines followed.
And you wouldn't over your fingers with diamond and sapphire rings? And you wouldn't put levels in your hair, and gold buckles on var shoes? And you wouldn't go in for collare of Valenciennes lace And you wouldn't want to carry a bouquet of hothouse flowers when you went to a ball? And you wouldn't want diamond clusters as farge as solitaires as shirt-studs?"
I could only shake my head with an at- tempt at a crescendo effect, and murmur something about the absurdity of going through life as if it were a fancy-dress ball; and it appeared that that was what was ex- pected of nie, and the rejoinder was ready,
"But men used to, you know, until the times of the Georges, and even later. Then they found it a nuisance, and gave it up, and took to sumptuary laws and uniforms-une uniform for afternoon calls, another uniform for dining out. The uniforms don't cost much, and don't wear out quickly; and fashion doesn't allow you to try to go one better than the uniform-to put gold buttons on your frock-coat or stitch gold lace on to your dress trousers. Whereas women, ""
"Yes, women .
"Wonkh, having no uniform, have to spend all their time in considering and con- triving, just as if life were, as you say, a fancy dress ball.”
But don't they like it. I had always been given to understand→→→→,"
It seemed, however, that I understood very little, and understood that little wrong; and
hasy generalisation was corrected. The rich minority de; but the poor ma jority don't. It costs too much the rich majority take very good care of that. Now do you begin to see what I'm driving at?" I bowed, awaiting a fuller explanation
It's this way A woman with a dress allowance of £50 a year may be the social equal of a woman with a dress allowance of £1,000. Nevertheless, if she goes into the same society, she has to engage in a dress- ing competition, in which she's bound to be beaten every time. She feels equally un- luppy whether she, stays at home to avoid the competition or goes out to be over- shadowed by the women who wear diamond tiaras and fifty-guinea frocks. It's a mui sance, and it's also a cause of-long dress- maker's bills. The women whom the com- petition worries are far more numerous than the women who get glory out of it; and the majority oughtn't to put up with it, any more than the majority of men would put up with it if millionaires tried to cut a dash by wearing coronets in the stalls at the Opera. Extravagance in dress, in short, is public nuisance to all but a very few of the extravagant; and I want to see it cut down, in the interest of the greatest happi ness of the greatest number, by a Sumptuary Law, enforcing the wearing of a uniform."
It seemed a drastic proposal; but still "Something like the Salvation Army
uniform, perhaps?" I suggested; but I was quickly shown that this was ill-timed frivolity. I was told that even that uniform probably became the woman who designed it was also exhorted to be serious, and I obeyed; and the argument flowed on:
1 don't want the majority to make guys of I'm pleading the cause of the majority.
themselves. I don't want any woman to make a guy of herself. What I want is to enable all women to be able to look equally well, without extravagance, provided they're equally good looking, and prevent the rich women from taking a mean advantage of
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