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Taranaki Daily News, 28 April 1934, Page 6 (Supplement)

Ankle Pockets. A few nights ago, in a well-known London restaurant, I saw a smart woman wearing an ankle pocket. This is the latest feminine vogue on the Continent, where it is imparting a thick appearance to modish ankles that is not at all pleasing to London eyes. If the ankle pocket, which is intended merely to carry a diminutive handkerchief and powder-puff, ever achieves popularity on this side of the Channel, it may be comforting to two types of people. It will enable women whose ankles lack slim symmetry' to camourflage this physical handicap, and if the ankle purs* presently comes to hold valuables, it ought to arouse the professional interest of London pickpockets. Women have used their stockings as purses, though usually at the more capacious end, since hose were first introduced. If they must continue the habit, it is obviously more discreet, in these snatch-and-grab times, to have the purse at the thin end.