DRESS FOR DANCES

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30026, 10 January 1963, Page 11

DRESS FOR DANCES

Ban On Shorts Opposed

'•The Press" Special Service DUNEDIN, January 9. Dance organisers at holiday resorts should not dictate to young people what they should wear, Mr Joe Brown, who conducts the Dunedin Town Hall dance, says. ’

He was commenting on the banning of shorts at dances at Wanaka and Queenstown recently. “Plain stupidity is a fit description for such a ban,’’ he said. “Providing the dancers are respectable people and not larrikins, there seems no logical reason to bar Shorts at holiday dances.” Wanaka banned shorts at dances because some persons last year went out for a swim and returned to the hall dripping wet. Queenstown banned them for a similar reason and because girls, in some instances, wore offensive tights. “If anybody tries to enter a hall in wet clothes or offensive garments it is surely up to the doorman to stop them going on to the dance floor or even admitting them,” Mr Brown says. Shorts were a recognised summer dress. If organisers of these dances wanted to introduce formality they should make girls wear high heels and high-necked dresses. “This action only retards the progress of a community. Some people must learn to move with the times—live and let Mve.”