BARE LEGS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17125, 4 December 1929, Page 11

BARE LEGS

MALOLO VISITORS MELBOURNE, Nov. 22. Several girl visitors in the Malolo made history last night, as far as Melbourne was concerned, ny appearing at the English-speaking Union Ball in evening dress and bare legs. Tho fact that these smartly dressed visitors wore no stockings was hardly detectable, and only a few of the Melbourne guests at the ball noticed them. A San Diego visitor, asked whether bare legs were the usual fashion in the U.S.A., said that in California, at any rate, very many young women had discarded stockings * for ceremonial occasions, as well as for picnicking and sportsr Other women passengers in the Malolo do not regard the stockingless mode for evening wear as being quite the thing. Said ono (she came from an eastern State): “Californians will do things that people from the other States will not do. It is contact with Hollywood that makes them take up extreme fashions which arc not seen in the other States of America.”

Other American women aboard the Malolo upheld this view, and one, discussing Hollywood, fashions, said: “The latest fad there is to go hare-legged, 'but to cover tho legs, face, and arms with n sun tan powder which makes you look like no Red Indian or Chinese or colored race that ever was, hue even in Hollywood, which is so blase, this fashion is stared at with disfavor.”