RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29901, 15 August 1962, Page 24

RANDOM REMINDER

SNARES AND DELUSIONS

Feminine fashions in general meet with mild male approval, mainly because there’s not much point in resisting at any rate. Not that man is blameless in this business. Before marriage, he would not go out with a girl who was not smart and chic; after marriage, when the cost of dressing these gorgeous creatures changes shoulders, parsimonypipes up. Very often, a man singles out one particular method of wifely extravagance and harbours silent resentment at it. We know a man who has a chip on

his shoulder about his wife’s stockings prevents ever stockings are mentioned. he groans as if in agony. He argues, with deep conviction, that the cost of his wife's stockings prevent him from trading his bicycle on a car. But he does not merely complain. He makes' useful suggestions, based on the many extremely durable materials of which stockings can be made—lisle, wool, lace mesh, cashmere, even string. With memories of the adaotability of a certain material with which certain nether garments were made during the

great depression, he has insisted on ordering flour in 251 b bags. But all these sound, matter-of-fact ideas have been received with scorn gnd indignation. He has suffered the derision of those about him. And now, salt is being rubbed in the wound. His wife, a la mode, is buying stocking: which are seamless, and which are so sheer, so delicate, and so nebulous that they send her into transports of delight and push him almost up the wall. Because whenever she wears them, he thinks she is not wearing stockings at all.