RUSSIAN BOOTS AGAIN

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 1, 1 July 1926, Page 13

RUSSIAN BOOTS AGAIN

In the most gentlemanly manner possible, the Eev. 6. Bradburn, England, delivers through tho parish magazine a homily to the feminine members of his flock concerning the wearing.of Russian boots.'

"Dear girls," writes the vicar—"Do you think you look charming encased in a couple of concertinas? Believe .me, we men think you look ridiculous. I do not deny that they are admirable wear for dirty weather, but why in the name of commonsense go about in them when it is fine? If it is cold, then wear thicker hose and not the same as you wear in the summer; but on no account hide shapely calves and ankles in Kussian boots all the winter through. Why, whatever do you wear short skirts for? Not merely, I warrant, to do away ivith dirty skirts, but to display a thing of beauty—a well-turned calf and ankle. I am of opinion that short skirts are a gain both hygienically. and artistically. .', You have as much right to show a shapely leg as a bishop has, and if it is covered with a champagne-coloured stocking warranted not to ladder, you are contributing a little beauty to life, which is far too drab at best So my advice is this: If you have a\ pair of Russian boots only wear them on roads that are mucky. If you havo not, don't invest iv a pair."