HOW WOMEN SHOULD PLAY GOLF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11182, 30 September 1899, Page 2 (Supplement)

HOW WOMEN SHOULD PLAY GOLF.

A WARNING AGAINST CORSETS. ' • The lookers-on sees most of the gape, the/, . say. On any of the famous links whew js " swell" golfers most do congregate -tliri' looker-on may see more than the game, es- . pecially if the eye of criticism be tinned on the women players. It is not the t play: I wish to turn attention to in the present in'. stance, but the influence which golf exerted on women's dress. For centuries, aye, even from the time that the classic •. draperies of ancient Greece and Rome vent out of fashion, women have tried to mould ■ their figures as nearly as possible after the ■ form of the hour-glass. They have con*. pressed their waists in cases of bones and g. steels, and have cheerfully gone on wearing . them in spite of the horrible consequences that have been dangled over their heads Wl-' : - the sword of Damocles by doctors and lee turers. Then golf came along, and what health reformers, lecturers, and surgeons unable to. accomplish golf has, dons without any fuss. It was simply ,> case of good and comfortable play without the corset, or bad, or at best mediocre, play and much fatigue with the | corset. Now it is said that of the mighty club-swingers among women almost poa'iij wear even a modified corset. One has hot M. ■. watch" the play at St. Andrews or North Berwick of the women whose names are so ■ f well known in the golfing world to see thst ■, this must be so. Our wasp-waisted grand' mothers would shed tears over the d e ' or 'v£mity of their athletic descendants.. Not that i-; the corset is dead by any means. Although : discarded for the links it will assert itseitdoubtless elsewhere! but a well-developed golfing girl of average proportions who enjoys golf without whalebones during tn® ; . day is not likely 'to submit to a IS-" 1 ™ corset in the evening. - _ •. There are other items of feminine attit® that have been much affected by. gplf»-RE®, of which is shoes. The dainty,. small-toea, high-heeled, thin-soled shoes of the pro®* nade are worse than useless on the lie®* The golfing woman has to be somewhat man' £p nish about the feet if she is to tramp »-||j; some miles daily over the sandy, bent »j® any degree of comfort. Broad, toes, ; ij 3 heels, no arch worth speaking of, heavy so' which extend well beyond the upp er '- . are the shoes which commend themselves 1 the earnest golfer. And it follows, »,LJ|| shoes so must be the hose. No e P;fS|j§ silk stockings or other dainty fabn c i P sensible all-wool hose that in cold and da P||| will ward off chill, and when the roun(l < dry and hard will make a soft "undersW ing," Gloves, too, have been .iff j.; ■ Nobody wants them when playing, and , the game ,is over it is more conifpria i |S| without. Shades of our grandmothers. other terrible declension! No se "' reseC If | 1 { or genteel" female would ever have thong of venturing abroad ungloved. .AJtogSwJfe golf seems to wage war on all the fluous 'airs and graces, and to have in duced an element of the rational and sen . into women's dress which no amount o turing and reasoning was able to'do.-®^«^ Paper,i" . m§m vv- - .. • n^faaMß € ' :