Fashion articles are usually pre: pared with an eye to the, well-to-do, has' been Heft for the London [County Council to discover that even the old ladies in Public. Assistance Ihave their feelings about dress. In a report Just issued by the LC.C, it recorded that shapeless monotonous uniforms which made pauper, or as Mr, Bumble might have Said, a' parochial inmate, conspicuous half' a mile off are a thing of the past "Well-cut frocks, stylish hats of felt or straw" are' now served round, improved underwear "stocki ud sateen, slips instead of andi elico," even thin stockings "in fashionable shades." Individualities are studied and "dress feonselousness" revived and stimulate fed. For the most part the old ladies fare delighted. Only on one point do they homme the reformer: they still prefer shawls to cardigans, in which, Jat least for comfort's sake, they show great deal of sense.
Wig should" we smile in readin these things? As a small child remember the workhouse wom being marched to church, each in plaid shawl and poke straw bonnet, alike as so many peas, a ruce apart, they might almost have been a tot of coiviels. To ye different from every other woman is at once the Joy and the curse of our sex, Is there a schoolgirl! who does not instinctively despise her uniform however artistically designed, simply because st is the same as every other girl's. And it the L. C, C. has brought some colour and interest Into the old ladies' lives, it deserves a ocd mark, even if its majority composed of Socialists, whom all respectable people munt abby
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