SYNTHETIC “FLAPPERS”

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 November 1927, Page 5

SYNTHETIC “FLAPPERS”

DEBT TO* CHEMISTS SIR J. PARR’S ESTIMATE (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (By Cable —Press Assn. —Copyright.) LONDON, November 26. “The patron saint of chemistry’’ is how Dr E. F. Armstrong, director of the British Dyestuffs Corporation, described the modern flapper, at the annual gathering of chemists. He said that almost everything the flapper displayed to our admiring view was chemists’ work. She has rings on her fingers, comprising synthetic stones, and bells on her toes, otherwise synthetic, leather; also mysterious underclothes which constituted one of the chemists’ greatest achievements. The very sheen of her hair was perhaps synthetic, while her face doubtless bore fingerings or products of the dyestuffs corporation. Sir J. Parr, opening a school at Seaford, Essex, expressed the opinion that the age of flapperdom in Britain lasted to twenty-one and twenty-live years whereas it finished in New Zea land’at. eighteen. His experience was that girls at twentyone were steadier than boys at twenty-one and disliked revolutionary change. Air Baldwin was rightly enfranchising women, at the age of twenty-one.