VANCOUVER’S GIRLS

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 289, 2 September 1931, Page 4

VANCOUVER’S GIRLS

Pyjama’d and Hatless VISITOR SURPRISED Writing of his observations at Bowen Island, Vancouver, Mr. K. Falconer, of Wellington, New Zealand delegate to the Canadian and United States Young Men’s Christian Association conferences, states: —“Girls go without hats a lot, and many wear pyjamas. On the steamer that morning most of the girls—and I bet there were 300, as a picnic was on —had these pyjamas. Some had wide legs, others are just like men’s pyjamas; colours of all sorts. It is quite an astounding sight to sec crowds of hatless, pyjama’d girls, walking the streets. Young girls of 12-15 wear boys’ outfits, long trousers, ordinary shirt, and gaily-pat-terned sweaters. Men’s clothes are different, too—corduroy trousers with blue tops if the legs be white, or vice versa. Everything is different —dress, shops, names of common things, trams, trafiic control —where pedestrians as W’eU as cars have to obey lights—food in cafeterias, telephones, nnd funerals, at which the ceremony is like an entertainment.”