TEA-TIME DANCE
LARGE CROWD AT STUDIO
SUCCESSFUL INNOVATION
Well over 200 young people in Wellington yesterday were overcharged with energy and "worked off" some of it at least at the tea dance in Miss Phyllis Bates's studio. It seems that tea dances are becoming as much an institution now as cocktail parties were until recently. Certainly they have more to recommend them both in the way of entertainment and exercise.
Many of those who attended the function yesterday had come from their places of business, so smart costumes and tailored dresses took the place of the more formal afternoon frocks, and the men wore their usual everyday suits in the conventional shades of brown, grey, and navy blue. The dance started at 6 o'clock.
Shortly after 9 o'clock a proportion
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 59, 7 September 1938, Page 16
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130TEA-TIME DANCE Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 59, 7 September 1938, Page 16
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