Women who have seen or heard about the fashions in "Husbaads for All,"* Miss Gertrude Jennings' new play at the Little Theatre, are discussing the probability of trousers for all in 1925, Miss Marian Wilson, the fashion prophet and designer of the garments worn in the play, is only eighteen years cld, but twelve days before "Husbands for All" was produced, when she was asked to create-fashions for five years hence, she knew exactly what women would wear by thet date.
The creations were left in her charge, and beyond a request that she would be moderate, with due respect for an English' audience, she was not interfered with.
Miss Wilson decided that however much girls may adopt fashions intended for men, they will never abandon frills and sticks, and so she compromised between the severity of masculine garments and the femininity of Early Victorian dresses with anginaly if unusual, results.
In 1925 a tailored coat and skirt, the stand-by in an Englishwoman's wardrobe, will have become converted to an overcoat and trousers shaped rather like flower petals, with a flowered silk waistcoat. Servants in black and white attire, or even neat uniforms, will be dreams of the past, and the domestic workers of the day, no longer labelled cooks or housemaids, will do their duties in casement cloth trousers, flowered cretonne bodices, and caps like a munitioner's head-covering.
The change in women's avenin, dress is most startling of all, an the dancer's desire for freedom of limbs becomes realized when taffetas trousers, tight and finished with frills, appear beneath a bell-shaped tunic. This costume, worn with a loose evening cloak, and finished by the addition of a long horn-topped cane, gives the 1925 woman the appearance of a perfect Beau Brummell.
Miss Wilson, who is a dancer ly profession and has recently finished appearing in Sylvia's Lovers, has designed stage aresses only once before.
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