MISS AMY JOHNSON.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20596, 21 June 1930, Page 30 (Supplement)

MISS AMY JOHNSON.

PETITE AND FEMININE. A correspondent from Darwin who has 6een Miss Amy Johnson, writes.of her as follows"She is slim and about sft. 4in. in height. Her hair is fair, and her eyes aro blue and friendly. It is early to say yet whether she smokes, but there was certainly no sign of paint or powder on her 6un-tanned face. At her civic reception she wore khaki breeches and a green blouse (grcon is her favourite colour) with collar and tie. But at tho party given her by tho Victoria League she became' truly feminine and petite in a frock of golden silk, worn with gold stockings and shocs> with her hair rolled over each ear. Sho'is bright and altogether charming." How this wonder girl every hopes to cope with her mail it is impossible to conjecture. However, out of her thousands of tolograms she camo across a request from a dress designer to fit her np, and inviting her' to telegraph' her measurements from Darwin to Brisbane, Melbourne a^d, Sydney, and to the great satisfaction •of her well-wishers she has been found to be in shopkeeper?' parlance, " Stock size." These were the measurements Amy Johnson telegraphed " Bust 34in., waist. 27in., hips 38b., across front 14in., back 13in., shouldors to hip 17in., tinder arm to wrist 20in.,' over arm to wrist 22in., shoulder sin., seam wrist 6in. Normal waistline preferred, favourite colour green"—which measurements a dress expert has_ declared como under "small women's" size. . When the air girl left England she carried only one frock in addition to her green flying suit which matched her plaue in colour, but by the time she reached Calcutta, according to a cablo message, she was travelling so light that 6he had to borrow a khaki shirt and shorts at-each place which sho landed.