12 SEPTEMBER 1947, Page 4

Women's skirts, or dresses, or whatever they call them, are

to be some inches longer. So it has been decreed in Paris, where such things are decided. But the judgement of Paris may be upset by the judgement of Sir Stafford, and I hope it will be. If men's socks could be shortened by order, as they were, women's skirts can be kept short by order. Obviously this is no time to be wasting good material. People who want (for some reason) to be in the fashion but can't afford coupons for new garments would, I should imagine, welcome an official fiat on the subject.