SPORTSWOMEN'S DRESS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19405, 13 August 1926, Page 11

SPORTSWOMEN'S DRESS.

» NEW RULES IN FRANCE. «A MORALITY COMMISSION." The Women's Sporting Federation of France has imposed on its members a rule as to the dress they should wear. It was stated that it was necessary to make it in view of the phantasies which a minority of sportswomen had introduced into their attire—the absence of sleeves, the reduction in the length of the skirt, outfits resembling bathing dresses, etc. A "morality commission" took up the matter and drew up a series of measures which came into force at all the women's athletic meetings in June. The judges and umpires have been given power to exclude all costumes not "in conformity with the regulations drawn up by the "morality commission." The regulation sports dress for a woman must be dark in colour The arms must be covered over a length of 25 centimetres, while the skirt must descend 10 centimetres below the knee—that is to say, it must be longer the the average of the "robes de ville." There was a lively discussion over the bust bodice. Some members of the commission -held that . this ■ accessory of women's toilet was neither ornamental nor useful, but a barbarous impediment. A Vote was taken on this matter, and the bust bodice was declared to be obligatory.