PERILOUS SKIRTS.
Two quite serious accidents in London ballrooms, directly due to thr ridiculously long skirts on which a few women insist upon dancing, took place recently. In one case a man trod on such a skirt, tore it off the wearer, and dislo caterl his knee, [n the other a woman fell over her own skirt, and was in bed for a week with a damaged ankle. Soon, I suppose, lernarks the writer, every ballroom will have |o be equipped with r,n ambulance and nurses in uniform ! The. matter is serious, and the dress designers must look to it. .Already in Paris the women are declining to dame in loiik skirts. They will do the same here present 1 v.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20722, 15 November 1930, Page 6 (Supplement)
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121PERILOUS SKIRTS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20722, 15 November 1930, Page 6 (Supplement)
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