ENGLISH SUMMER GIRL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16494, 3 August 1921, Page 2

ENGLISH SUMMER GIRL.

dressing to keep cook. EON DON , July 20. The prolonged heat ■wave is responsible for a startling evolution in women’s dress in England. Tlio modern flapper, unwillingly obliged to confess that short skirts and low blouses have reached a point of diminution beyond which it is not advisable to- go, has solved the problem of keeping cool by discarding items of dress hitherto ie _ garded as essential. West End firms display tl the summer girl’s heat wave outfit, 3 weighing 9£oj&. It comprises a muslin frock boz, undies, two items, 2oz, silk stockings loz, and garters soz. Corsets are regarded as non-essential, and are rarely A. maids lightest outfit weighs -lib 15oz. There is a similar movement at the seaside, where jazz-coloured cretonne costumes for women aml short trunks for men put in the shade even the most fantastic creations of Manly or Coogee. „ , _ .. The correspondent of the Daily Mail 3 ’ at Paris states that restaurant habitues in the Bois do Boulogne gasped vesterday at the spectacle of throe men in cool silk pyjamas of variegated hues, who entered a restaurant accompanied by three pretty women. A dashing, heruMallecl colonel coolly supped under a battery of not altogether disapproving eyes.