SHORT SKIRT SEQUEL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16300, 5 August 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

SHORT SKIRT SEQUEL.

EXTRAVAGANCE OF FASHION.

The temporarily rich and those girls who are earning money for the first time in their lives, seem to be succumbing to a display of the hosiery and shoes that have arrived in the wake of the exaggeratedly short skirt (says a London correspondent).

Walking down Regent Street, I met an endless variety of colours in hosiery and footwear, most of which proclaimed extravagance and vanity. A pair of neat bronze-coloured silk stockings, worth perhaps 10s 6d, worn with enormously highheeled bronzed boots at, say, £2 2s a pair, completed a suit of delicate beige taffetas and a pretty hat. Another girl was wearing white stockings of extra tine silk gauze which would cost perhaps 5s a pair, with white boots costing perhaps a guinea. A pair of navy blue glace kid shoes with silk stockings to match cannot have totalled less than 30s, and a pair of striking-looking patent Russian boots, with an overturned rim and hanging silk tasaels, must have cost nearly 40s. These outlays might not have seemed extravagant if the one pair only was required. But if every summer frock requires footwear and stockings to match, and the stockings are so thin that they cannot bo worn more than once or twice, the extravagance of the fashion is obvious.