SHORTS AGAIN

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 96, 6 April 1934, Page 12

SHORTS AGAIN

CONSERVATIVE WOMEN. The Lawn Tennis Association of Victoria has lifted the ban forbidding the wearing of shorts by men and women players, says a Melbourne writer. So far, however, only one woman has been seen in shorts—at the recent championship* for women at Kooyong, Melbourne. A leading woman player says that “at heart our girls are conservative. They will not, be rushed into making a sudden change. Anything that, makes for greater freedom of action in sport is to be welcomed. All that is needed is a little courage.” But surely aestheticism as well as courage is involved. There is nothing more indelicate in shorts than in an all in-one bathing suit. What, however, more horrid than a fat woman .in such a garment—or more beautiful than a slim girl! To watch a woman in shorts on a public tennis court, surrounded by a mixed audience, would be a sorry sight if the wearer of them had not a slight figure and one perfectly proportioned. Some modern girls possess if, but the majority do not. Therefore it seems wise for women as a whole, not to adopt the new costume. A* an example of how one should look in it, there is no better exponent than the famous German actress, Miss Elizabeth Bergner. now plsving the part of “Gemma” in ' 1.-cape Me Never.” Sim plays a whole scene dressed in the shortest of shorts, and a little White shirt, and look t bo ■ mod est and irresistible.