I have never undervalued wrap skirt. Whatever other heresies it may have had, however it may have insisted that the more a woman dresses up, the more she knows of make up, the higher her fashion sense is elevated, the more interesting she will be, not only for an hour, but as a companion for life. It is never said that she is less attractive when dressed in a simple wrap skirt but with taste, style and according to the season. Love itself could scarcely be expected to survive a winter hat worn after Easter. And the philosophy of this is not on the surface or applicable to women only. In this the highest of created things are under a law having a much wider application.
A novel writer workson fiction, which have become an absolute essential in the modern times. They have commonly a summer and winter apparel. Skirts had always been the favorite and safe pick for the novelists when it comes to the fashion of their female characters.
It is realized a lot depends upon the apparels that are worn by the characters in the novels - skirts put on not only to showthe inner life of the characters, but to delight the readers who are to associate with them. A wrap skirt gives the woman, reading the fiction, a chance to create her own stylein reality out of the fiction. It is fact that there are novels that almost do away with the necessity of fashion magazines and fashion plates in the family, so faithful are they in the latest millinery details, and so fully do they satisfy the longing of all of us to know what is chic for the moment.
It is pretty well inferred, also, that women, and even men, are made to express the deepest passions and the tenderest emotions in the crises of their lives by the clothes they put on. How the woman in such a crisis hesitates before her wardrobe, and at last chooses just what will express her innermost feeling! Does she dress for her lover the same way she dresses to receive her lawyer who has come to inform her that she is living beyond her income? She chooses a wrap skirt which goes with all moods.
It is true that novels and fashion magazines mold the taste of women and to a great extent determine their thinking and adjusting to the latest fashion. But skirts had always been there through ages and survived all tests of time. Wrap skirt is the ever green version of skirt and had always been the favorite. It is also known as the magic skirt. Novels & Fashion magazines could not really contribute much to its design or popularity, so it was left on its own or may be neglected all through. Fashion Designers did not have much to do with the wrap skirt because it is the simplest apparel a woman could ever imagine and she can do wonders with it. The control is in the hands of the woman wearing it and not to the designer. The woman finds a link between her fiction and reality and creates her own style. The sense of freedom – breaking away from the dictatorship of the fashion magazines, fashion designers. The woman takes control. Would not the lover be spared time and pain if he knew, as the novelist knows, whether the young lady is dressing for a rejection or an acceptance?