CHANGING SCENE

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 72, Issue 6243, 17 June 1946, Page 6

CHANGING SCENE

THEN AND NOW THE HOBBLED LADY An esteemed reader handed to the Courier,- the following extract from a London, paper published on the 21st September. 1910: Regent-?street (writes an observant correspondent) had a spasm of mild excitement yesterday afternoon. A tall lady, attired in the very latest thing’ in hobbles, suddenly appeared opposite the Picadilly Hotel. The lady was fair of countenance. She was surmounted by a hat of beehive design with egret feather pointing to the zenith, wore sleeves cut off short at the elbows, and carried an effective display of bunting in the way of a-dainty, flowing shoulder shawl of gauzy substance. .But it was the hobble that finished the picture. This was a band of some .five or six inches in width, of rich colouring, that effectively bound the black silk dress an inch or two below the knees. Several inches of open work stocking, and a pair of highheeled shoes were delicately visible. In thirty seconds she was the head of an interested and. delighted procession. Away towards Oxford Circus she hobbled, and the crowd lined up and let her pass, and then fell in behind or trotted along, admiring the way she did it. Opposite Conduicstreet, however, she had had enough, and swiftly tacking across the road, she sought cover in a large shop. It took three policemen to guard the entrance.