From Paris comes the news that fashion experts in the Spring will try to make women give up carrying bags and have large pockets in their clothes with zip fasteners. At least this is the idea for tweed suits.
It does not seem welcome in London. A leading dressmaker, a City typist and a V.A.D, have all been interviewed and are dead against it. "Why," said one, "in these days we have to carry twice as much as in peace times. To put it all in pockets would make us look simply elephant tine."
It will take more than the upheaval of a European war to make women use pockets,
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