BARE-LEGGED CULT.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 12, 15 January 1929, Page 10

BARE-LEGGED CULT.

LADY WITHOUT STOCKINGS.

AMERICAN'S INNOVATION.

COOL, COMFORTABLE, ECONOMICAL

Ladies without stockings, maids and even matrons, are fairly plentiful about Auckland beaches these summer days, when the mercury has a tendency to soar, but a lady about Queen Street with bare legs is something of a novelty, and as a fashion it has not yet naught on, although anything seems possible these days when modes are just as capricious as the wind.

A charming young American, Miss Trah F. Blanchfield, of New York, who ie spending a holiday in Auckland, regarde stockings as a superfluity, and she stated yesterday that the abbreviated skirt and bare-legged cult was just the thing at Atlantic City, Hollywood and Honolulu, while in Sydney the new fashion was getting quite popular.

This demure and pleasant little lady called at the "Star" office yesterday to give some details of the new mode, and while a lady member of the staff acted as chaperone, a somewhat embarrassed reporter gaaed with becoming modesty and pardonable interest at a dimpled knee, a dainty calf and an exquisite ankle.

Browned by summer suns in many parts of the world, one might have thought at a casual glance that the visitor was wearing flesh-coloured hosiery of the kind which is both popular and deceiving, and thus, save from prying pyes, the new mode which Miss Blanchfield is setting escapes general observation in the streets of the city. "No seams, no holes, no 'ladders,'" «aid Miss Blanchfield enthusiastically, "and when you get used to it, you would not dream of wearing stockings." She received an assurance that at icaet one person in Auckland was convinced that the barelegged cult had much to commend it in the case of a young lady ™th one of those nice, ■month, velvety skins, but feelings of Zh ii 7 H* 7 inquiries Is to whether the fashion would be suitable for ladiea w.th either varicose vein* or hairy legs. "It's very economical, and somebody Jibs to start a fashion," said the visitor with a radiant smile as she posed bv Unwell gUttce, »$&