THE WATCH-WRIST.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 568, 4 December 1915, Page 7

THE WATCH-WRIST.

Have you got the watch-wrist? No, I don't mean a wrist-watch—-everybody, or nearly everybody, has a wrist-watch in these,days. I mean the watch-wrist —the kind of wrist that is so fashionable just now as to be almost universal.

Observe any member of your womankind closely this morning. If she is wearing a wrist-watch, as she probably is, notice how she jerks the dial into view when she wants to know the time. Tf she throws out her arm, with elbow crooked, and brings the back of her hand uppermost with a twist and a jerk, then she has acquired the watch-wrist. She has got it from the boys in khaki, of course. In pre-war days, the girl with a wrist-watch, when she wished to consult her timepiece, invariably grasped her left wrist with her right hand, and pushed back the cuff of her blouse or coat so as to expose the face of the watch. The boy in khaki cannot do that. His right hand is already engaged in carrying his "swagger" cane. The raising of the left arm and the exposure of the watch-dial have to be done in one movement. So he has invented the special jerky twist of the wrist already described—that is to say, he evolved the watch-wrist. Our womankind have copied him in this as in so many other things, and if you will take the trouble to be observant in office or tramcar this morning, you will see that every girl owning a wrist-watch has caught the trick, and can do it as smartly, and a good deal more gracefully, than the boy in khaki himself. They have all got the watchwrist. —N.E., in an English exchange.