Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-02-13 | Page 37 | Viscountess Proposes the Government Should Design the Clothes You Wear

Viscountess Proposes the Government Should Design the Clothes You Wear 1 wOfce RXLOW 5HK3N jse,. ! MUT o3 ' xjT 71MtTIM OP APPEARING ' (, i y wlLTO itno-i-il-iH . IXXNOON, Feb. 12. GoTernment reg- ulation of fashions Is proposed and advocated by Viscountess Grimston. This titled Knglush society woman says every nation should have a national na-tional fashion commission composed com-posed of: First, commercial designers who would suggest Improvements in prevailing pre-vailing style and materials. Second, artists who would pass upon the suggestions from the esthetic point of view. Third, women of taste who would decide what was becoming, utilitarian and economical. "What women need," says the vls-coantess, vls-coantess, "Is government of styles by women for women, instead of by commercial com-mercial designers. "True fashion should consider the figure of the wearer of the clothes, her I health and her pocketbook. It would promote Individuality. But designers 1 don't do thls: : "It's easy to say a woman dossn't have fo conform to the clothing of the day. Hut II requires great Independence Inde-pendence of mind to wear something different. "If you do not follow freak fashions you are accused of appearing conspicuous. conspic-uous. "The result Is that women slavishly follow commercialised fashion. "W must have a fashion, but we needn't continue slaves to fashions with narrow outlook, frequent changes snd false standards of smartness."