WOMEN’S UGLY LEGS

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 January 1928, Page 11

WOMEN’S UGLY LEGS

A PRESS OFFENSIVE. “Surely the ‘leg game’ has gone far enough,” says the “Daily Express,” in summing up a series of articles, in which it has been attacking “the reckless exposure of women’s knees.” • "Not only London, but also every big city in the world, such as New York and Sydney, has been turned into a monotonous parade of or salmon-coloured legs, and 1927 will be known to history at leg year.” i Only one woman in a 100 possesses shapely legs, the paper adds.- Yet every woman —young middle-aged, and old—has given an extravagant display of knee-caps, causing men to gasp with astonishment that such shapely bodies could possibly be attached to knock-kneed, 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 intersts and the interests of art, be kept a close secret. “Five million pairs of legs and knees in the streets, and on buses and trams, have proved damaging to man’s' instinctive desire to idealise feminity. Surely the time has arrived when man’s sense of humour and woman’s good sense demand a retiremen of the shapeless, ugly things beneath a kindly skirt.” The “Daily Express devotes a leading article to the subject. It says: “Few will maintain that the revelations disclosed byt 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.” . Scores of letters have poured in on the paper on this subject. Many uphold the “Express,” but others say it is the sentiment of disgruntled Victorian “blue stockings.”