ABSTRACT
There could hardly have been a more emphatic argument against the so called rational dress than the appearance of the stall-holders at the bazaar in the Kensington Town Hall organised by the Rational Dress Society opened to-day by Margaret Lady Sandhurst. The rationality evidently consists in the duality of the under-dress, and in the shortness of the upper drapery. The eilitto muddy weather dress, which Mrs Charles Hancock and her assistants wear with the top boots and the masculine collar, is appropriate only for a sportswoman’s wear on the moors or streams. The bodices, velvet Zouaves over full blouses of silk are the only parts of the dress that will recommend themselves to ladies outside the ranks of the Rational Dress Society. All that can be said is that when the rational ladies walk out in their irrational dresses the London gamin will have no mercy.
