PLATFORM HINTS

Press, Volume C, Issue 29634, 3 October 1961, Page 2

PLATFORM HINTS

Avoiding Leg Display

Special Correspondent N.Z.P.A. LONDON 1 , Oct. 2. “Tap people” among women who grace platforms at both the Conservative. Party conference at Brighton and the Labour Party conference at Blackpool might take notice of a few lighthearted hints which the Conservative Central Office has just issued in its magazine for constituency workers.

It tells them that, from the point of view of the audience, the “front row of the party platform and the front row of a chorus have one distinctive feature in com-mon—-legs, legs, legs;” and it makes the following suggestions for avoiding too much of a leg show: “First of all, sit up straight and well back in the chair and in all circumstances keep the knees close together. If you must, cross your ankles but never cross your knees. Never ease your feet out of your shoes or let your ankles sag outwards. And please, never assume a ‘knees wide' position, so popular with football teams when being photographed with trophies they have won.” The artiele also has some advice for male platform sitters on adjusting trouser legs: “Husbands should be advised that the hitch (halfmast position between knee and ankle) is very ugly and certainly signals the death of male glamour?’