REVIVAL OF THE CHAPERON

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20070, 6 October 1928, Page 20

REVIVAL OF THE CHAPERON

News lately came from London from the smart mother of a young and charming debutante daughter, that she had been having many late nights owing to chaperoning the girl through her first season. The chaperon has been revived, says an Australian writer. There has been a decided swing of the pendulum, and now no nice girl goes anywhere without her chaperon. Mothers accompany their daughters to dances, «ind oven take other gills under their charge. The return of the chaperon is among those on the highest rung of society, but, like all good fashions nowadays, this ievival will percolate downwards to the middle classes. It is difficult to find a definite cause for the chaperon's return, but one of the young bloods of the social world says he thinks it is a reaction from the fashion of a man taking a girl to a dance, and dancing with her all the evening. By the end of three hours,-he avers, neither has anything left to say, and both become bored. How much better to change paitners several times during the evening. Then, of course, it is necessary to have someone to take the girl back to after each dance, so—the useful chaperon. But the question never seems to aris;e: "Do neoDle like being chaperoned ?"