ABSTRACT
The average woman has hitherto limited her ambition in matters of dress to keeping at the most, abreast of the fashion of the hour. But the latter day enfranchisement of the sex is liberal enough to include even those nice questions of costume which the ‘advanced’ female was wont to hold in unfeminine contempt. A ‘Coming Dress’ Bazaar was held at the Kensington Town hall, at which the fair stall-holders were able to give free scope to their prophetic instinct in this direction. There was one thing characteristic of all the costumes – with the exception of a dress framed on the model of that worn by Japanese women of the old regime – in that they included, ‘more expressed than hidden’, the innovation which the euphemistic advocates of the new movement call the divided skirt.
