THE TANGO GARTER, OR GAITER.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 25, 6 March 1914, Page 4

THE TANGO GARTER, OR GAITER.

"We have had tango slippers that slipped, tango caps that capped the climax, tango stockings that shocked, tango slit skirts that have been variously and properly denounced, and poor tango has been all but tabooed, says a writer in an American paper. But on top of all these outer inventions that have been the target for denunciation from platform and pulpit,/ comes now a really modest, charmingly pretty bit of feminine apparel-—the socalled "tango garter." It is truly, I should say, a step toward tango modesty. The name may be against it, but that is all. In reality, it seems to be the solution of the dancing problem. Those who would tango and have found it hard to do it in a dress that is not slit j can now put on their tango garters. As a matter of fact, they are not garters at all, but are- gaiters, loose garters, made to incase the legs from the knee down. They are beautifully made, a flaring width of accordion plaiting being inside and a wide length of some filmy lace without. Thus, no matter how slit the skirt, the effect is infinitely proper. Miss Jane van Rellim, a Chicago girl, who has unlimited ambitions and some talent for portrait painting, is sponsor for this garter. Although they are attracting much attention, she says they are not new. "That is, they are not new to the |world," she explained. "They are new for the time, but as far back as 1670 | they were worn in the English courts. Then, in 1729, the days of enormous hoop skirts, women wore th'em because the big hoops would become, hard to | manage in the wind, or going up and ; down stairs, and tilt badly.' ;

"Since then we have had little spells of them, but not long enough; at a time to C9nstitute an epoch."