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From: International Herald Tribune
Date: 20010615
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International Herald Tribune
06-15-2001
KENNEBUNKPORT Booth Tarkington disagrees with Paris professional women on the subject of mannish clothes for women. He believes that in fifty years the skirt as an article of woman's apparel would be practically forgotten. ''The skirt is merely a relic already and there is no real reason for it. I expect to see the time when women will wear garments made approximately on the same fashion as those of men. Modesty is an element that does not enter into the question. Women are determined to have equality with men, in clothes as well as otherwise.''

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