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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 143, 21 June 1927, Page 4

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WOMEN IN PANTALOONS

(From "The Post's" Representative.)

SYDNEY, 2nd June.

Two or three very courageous women, falling into line with a fashion which, it is eaid, has been the vogue on the Continent for some time, appeared at a big function in- Sydney a night or two ago in pantaloons. According to a woman journalist, they wore "short frocks of taffeta, the bouffant skirts being cut above the knee with a transparent hemline of tulle, through which pantaloons of taffeta to match the frocks were clearly visible." The game writer observes that, while the pantaloon leaves much to be desired in gracefulness, it would seem to indicate a definite step towards the adoption of trousers by women. "The transparent hem," she. adds, "which in most cases falls from the knees to just above the ankles, is probably a concession to the last remaining remnant of what our grandmothers styled maidenly modesty, and will possibly disappear as the season advances."

At another big social function girls selling novelties produced an unusual effect by wearing blue and gold ribbon anklets as distinguishing badges. To read at the same time of an old-fashioned waltz competition at one of these functions, suggests something incongruous. One woman at least in Sydney affects'a monocle; she is an enthusiastic patron of the Turf, and is a constant visitor to Randwick.