WOMEN TO-DAY

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 110, 5 November 1927, Page 15

WOMEN TO-DAY

A writer iv the "London Magazine" thus gives the contrast with 25 years ago. "Take the greater, and, as some think, the better half of the race— woman herself. The girl of to-day is clothed rationally in short, skimpy skirt, smart silk stockings, and a single suit of underwear. Her mother was inextricably swathed in two or three petticoats with, let it be whispered, sometimes 'plus fours' of red flannel, and she regarded silk stockings as only

fit for women who wero not quite nice,' that damning indictment of the 'nineties. I wonder how the, sweet young thing of to-day who plays ten.ps like a 'pro,' swims like a fish, and runs like.a deer, would have liked to wear the pinched V toes of her ma and to wear half a dozen skirts in the briny, or a sort of nightgown that often came down to her heels? I wonder! Why, I have seen the lady tennis champion of that period wear tight 'stays,' a long, bell-bottomed skirt, and a sleeve like a lateen sail when playing for her title! There was a widespread idea a quarter of a century ago that • women had no legs. They were always close-covered and wore never mentioned in polite conversation."