1927 A “LEG YEAR”

Evening Star, Issue 19772, 24 January 1928, Page 11

1927 A “LEG YEAR”

DISPLAY OF KNEECAPS. “Surely the ‘log game’ has gone far enough,” says the London ‘ Daily Express,’ in summing up a series of articles in which it attacked “the reckless exposure of women’s knees.” “ Not only Lo.ndon, but every big city in the world, such as New York and Sydney, has been turned into a monotonous parade of bronze or salmoncolored legs, and 1927 will ho known to history as leg year.” Only one woman in 100 possesses shapely legs, the paper adds. Yet every woman—young, middle-aged, and old—has given an extravagant display of kneecaps, causing men to gasp with astonishment that such shapely bodies could possibly bo attached to knockkneed, emaciated, or bulging extremities. “Nothing,” it declares, “pardons an unwarrantable display of kneecap shamelessness. The outstanding lesson has been that the majority of women possess legs which should, in their own interests and tha interests of art, be kejit a close secret. Five million pairs of legs and knees in the streets, and on buses and trams, have proved damaging to man’s instinct’ve desire to idealise femininity. Surely the time has arrived when man’s sense of humor and woman’s good sense demand a retirement of the shapeless, ugly things beneath a kindly skirt. Few will maintain that the revelations disclosed by amazingly short skirts have added to the beauty of the universe or the attractiveness of the wearers. It is surely time to demand a change.”