BRIGHTER UNIFORMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 149, 21 December 1936, Page 18

BRIGHTER UNIFORMS

LONDON WOMEN POLICE

Miss Dorothy Peto, the tall, Etoncropped superintendent of the Metropolitan Women Police, will next month set out on a tour of Europe to study the clothes and the organisation of women police, states the "Daily Mail."

The result of this extensive "foreign beat" may be brighter uniforms for British women police, whose dress has been the subject of jibe and criticism for years.

Miss Peto will see the new War-, saw corps of policewomen, whose/ smart uniform has played as import^ ant a part as their efficiency in makfing them popular. She will.also take note of the becoming uniforms of the Paris policewomen and the neat outfit of the Dutch women officers.

Scotland Yard's rigid outlook regarding London policewomen's dress was relaxed in 1931 to the extent of substituting soft shirts, collars, and ties for the high-necked, stiff tunic. Even a helmet, slightly less ominous-looking than its predecessor, was provided.

An inch or two off the height of the black boots was another concession, otherwise austerity was preserved.

To prevent steam from filling your bathroom every time you take a hot bath, follow this simple method.

Fix to the hot water tap a small length of old rubber hose piping; let the other end rest on the bottom of the bath and run in just enough cold water to cover the opening of the tube. Then turn on the hot water and. no 'steam, will bother, you* ■-«,,