“SHORTS” CRAZE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 March 1930, Page 8

“SHORTS” CRAZE.

NEW FASHION ON SYDNEY , BEACHES. NO COLOURFUL PYJAMAS. SYDNEY, Feb. 28. Sydney beach girls have evolved a new fashion for sunny days and have taken to wearing “shorts.” Beach pyjamas and gaudy kimonos'have gone into the cast-off bag and the new fashion has taken their place. At all the big beaches near Sydney, nearly every female surfer walks to the beach in a pair of white shorts, some kneelength, others abbreviated in amazing fashion, and a white silk or coloured sports jumper. The change-over came suddenly and for a time the stores were hard put to cope with the heavy demand for “shorts.” The fair buyers even invaded the men’s departments, and shop assistants were forced to unwrap their winter stocks of football apparel to meet the sudden rush.. The new craze started at Palm Beach soon after the start of the New Year when many of Sydney’s society beauties, adopted the “shorts” style. For a few weeks the fashion peculiar to Palm Beach and its neighbouring surfing resorts. But the fad soon spread to Manly, Bondi and Coogee, until now, to be without shorts is to be old-fashioned. Popular ensemble for the beach habitue is shorts, worked or embroidered above the left knee with an initial or flower design, silk jumper of any striking colour or plain white, finished off with a flowing kerchief sports tie, and topped with a Mexican sombrero or a cute little American “gob” cap Though a good deal of the colour with which the beaches became splashed when the beach pyjama craze was at its height has departed ■with the advent of the new fashion, Sydney girls look quite smart and sporty in their ot+ire Tt i<i d’flicnP on occasion to differentiate between flappers and sheiks in the sun-haking areas. Sydney shopkeepers are wondering what will be the next dictate of surfing and beach fashion.