BLOOMERS OF WOOL

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30667, 5 February 1965, Page 11

BLOOMERS OF WOOL

Professor’s Advice (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) LONDON, February 4. A 59-year-old bachelor professor today appealed to Britain’s girls to wear woollen bloomers, tweed skirts, thick stockings and warm boots in the cold—to keep their legs slim and pretty, the “Daily Mirror” reported. Professor Alexander Boyd warned girls who prefer nylons and frills whatever the temperature that they risked fat calves and blotchy shins by the time they were 30, the newspaper said. They would be victims of erythrocyanosis crurum puellairum frigidum—the doctors’ name for a condition caused by exposure to cold. Tissue and fat multiplied on cold legs to keep them warm—and outgrew the blood supply. Professor Boyd, who shares a house with his housekeeper and pet monkey in Manchester, confessed that he knew little about women, said the “Daily Mirror.” “But,” he said, “the skirts they wear are comparable to grass skirts in the West Indies and underneath their skirts they wear very little or nothing, according to what my assistants tell me. “Hideous legs can ruin a girl’s life. The only answer is to keep ’em warm.”

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