Milford chronicle., 1959-06-12

WOMEN AND FASHION

1t seems that even the leading fashion eX-
pertS of the female sex are at last becoming
concerned with the increasing trend among
women to adopt male fashions. In fact, one
prominent feminine expert in the fashion
field recently reported that the adoption of
male styles by women is an indication that
hundreds of thousands of women are becom-
ing too tough
This fashion expert concluded that the
current vogue among some of the younger
set of wearing scruffy clothes, with cropped
hair, hollow eyes, and chest to match, is evil
dence of an inner revolt which is robbing
the average female of her femininity.
One theory, advanced in Great Britain,
is that the trend toward masculinity, among
women, and toughness, has caused decline
in the number of British men who truly like
women. Love poems, for example, are said
to be dying for want of inspiration.
If the current era is the beginning of the
sexless woman, as some say, we suggest that
the loser in this game will be the woman
herself. For, after all, the woman'S role in
society and family life is a wonderful one,
and the woman in civilizations scheme of
things has certain advantages which she will
lose if she casts away her femininity, her
natural instincts to love and care for her
family, and look up to her husband, and the
many charms and forms of femininity which
are perhaps the most powerful force or in
fiuence affecting the male today. We are at
a loss to understand the reasoning behind the
current vogue among so many women and
girls to follow sheep-like the utterly ridicu-
lous fashions being "put over" on females
today.
We suspect that the revolt being men
toned by the fashion experts is caused by
the righteousness of such styles as sack
dresses, and if one must choose between mas
culine wear for women and sack dresses,
there is not much to choose from. When the
style designer go back to the designing of
clothes with the view of taking advantage of
good figures, and feminine qualities, then
women will probably return to their tradi-
tiOnal feminine role
POLITICAL SPENDING RESTRAINED
The House of Representatives did the
country many-faceted service when it sus-
tanned President Eisenhower's veto of the
bill that would have removed the Secretary
of Agriculture's authority to approve or dis
approve loans by the Rural Electrifcation
Administration.
In vetoing it, the President called the
bill "a major retreat from sound admins
trative policy and practice" And former
President Hoover said '"That bill will turn
loose an enormous spending agency from even
the restraints of the Secretary of Agricul-
ture"
One can be for or against REA and the
co-ops it finances. This is matter of con-
troversy, in which there is plenty of room
for divergent views and PHILOSOPHERS. But
it is difficult to see how anyone can reason
ably support legislation which frees any
spending agency of the government from adj
ministrative controls. It's no secret that
REA spokesmen want to enormously expand
the cooperative movement, even into urban
areas where perfectly adequate service is
provided by heavily taxed, publicly-regulat-
ed utility companies. The vetoed bill would
have helped make that possible-at an un-
known ultimate cost to the taxpayers.
The pending bill to give IVA the author
ity to issue revenue bonds to finance expan-
sion of its power system is cut from the same
kind of cloth. 1t would free IVA from Con-
greSsional and other controls which are ab-
solutely essential if the interests of the peo-
pie are to be protected, and if we are to avoid
creating a monolithic, unsupported, tax
dodging monopoly of potentially limitless
size