SOCIETY TORTURE

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 51, 1 March 1930, Page 19

SOCIETY TORTURE

RETURN OF LONG FROCKS

Help! 'flic most awful happenings are being reported from overseas because rof the return of the long frock to the ballroom (writes "Lady Kitty" in the "Adelaide Observer"). At a recent smart ball in London,'more, anklelength frocks were worn than any other mode.. Long and flowing or tight and constricting, they.- almost touched the ground all the way round. Moving, in some cases, was f-xtrcmeiy difficult, and as their wearers were unaccustomed to trammelled limbs, more than one guest tripped and fell. Oiie fair lady, forgetting that she- was hobbled, stepped out jauntily, tripped, and fell headlong down half a dozen steps. Well, black eyes and broken noses cannot inflict more pain and disfigurement1 than sun scald. New modes are thus but a new form of Society torture. ' : : :

- La dy Lou is Mountbatten, ■who • was noted for the extreme: brevity of her short skirts, never hesitates, but-goes j the whole hog when Fashion dictates; ] and the white frock she wore at the; aforementioned ball was the longest'in! the room. The long wraith-like drap-j cries caused a poetic'guest to exclaim: i "Some of these-women look- like mod-' ern,'beautiful ami elegant incarnations of the witches in Macbeth, their finger nails blushing as though . coloured in the gore of a-hecatomb of goats.'? \ Smart women, who have been ridiculously trying on new winter iniqdes in January's heat; tell -me thatffgure's are all up under the chin, as-it were; arid waists' are ever so high- to keep then; there. Believe .me, once the freedom of our dear, daring short skirts has been taken from us.-;'(and-by. .the hedressmakers of Paris,.save -the' mark), there will be no end to the. shackles placed on our liberty by Fashion. : The next move will be pulled-in corsets and boiled bodices! Mark my words!