PLEATED SHORTS FOR TENNIS
Shorts—dainty white pleated ones—are the latest dictum of fashion for women tennis players. Tenuis fashions have changed so completely to-day that women players who wear stockings look frumpish. Men are discarding the long trousers in favour of shorts, led by “ Bunny ” Austin (states a correspondent), Spectators at a tennis party given recently by Lady Crosfield were amazed when Mrs Fearnley-Whitting-stall, a leading English competitor at Wimbledon last week, discarded a long scarlet coat, revealing shorts as brief as tlior.' of a chorus girl. The ‘ Daily Mail ’ says that Mrs Whittingstall is pretty and capable enough to get away with this sort of thing. Jt was noticed, however, that she resumed her coat hurriedly when she was presented to Prince; i Alice of Athlonc, a cousin, of King George. It is rumoured that Mrs Helen Wills Moody also has a pair of tennis shorts with which she may yet electrify Wimbledon,
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Evening Star, Issue 21515, 13 September 1933, Page 13
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154PLEATED SHORTS FOR TENNIS Evening Star, Issue 21515, 13 September 1933, Page 13
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