The Dress Doctors on appropriate urban attire from the first half of the 20th century (not bad advice for today): Clothes worn on city streets by women who had come to the city not to work but to shop should also be characterized by a certain impersonal or formal tailored smartness. The idea was not to make the wearer conspicuous among strangers. And since even the shopper was doing a kind of work, she needed to be dressed for any kind of weather in order to do it well. If she wears think-soled satin slippers, a perishable hat, dresses and coats which spot easily, she has no right to feel that she is appropriately dressed for shopping, wrote Trilling and Williams. They added cattily that when a woman wears party clothes on the streets, she forces onlookers to conclude that she has no other place to wear fine clothes. From The Lost Art of Dress by Linda Przybyszewski
Posted on: Tue, 20 May 2014 12:45:46 +0000
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