THE MODERN FLAPPER.

Grey River Argus, 29 November 1927, Page 5

THE MODERN FLAPPER.

A PATRON SAINT OF CHEMISTRY. (Aus. "nd NZ Gable AssnL 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 lingerings 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-five years, whereas it finished in New Zealand at eighteen. His experience was that girls at twenty-one were steadier than boys at twenty-one, and disliked revolutionary change. Mr Baldwin was rightly enfranchising women at the age of twenty-one.