SHORT SKIRTS AND LIGHT STOCKINGS PREVENT ACCIDENTS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18012, 24 November 1926, Page 9

SHORT SKIRTS AND LIGHT STOCKINGS PREVENT ACCIDENTS.

(Special to the “ Star.") 1 NAPIER, November 23. “ Verily all is vanity,” said the preacher, but, judging by the remarks made to a “ Telegraph ” reporter by A Napier motorist, the particular feminine vanity which impinges on flesh coloured stockings has a practical side which is probably undreamt of by the wearer. “ As a guide to a car driver at night, and a preventive against possible accishort skirts disclosing a length of light coloured stocking invaluable,” said the motorist. “ Whatever else the. car headlights may faiT to pick up at night time there is nothing ambiguous about a pair of feminine legs twinkling along clad in their highly coloured stockings. You simply can’t miss them, and I’m open to gamble that light coloured stockings have saved more than one woman or girl from being run over.” In substantiation of his contentions he pointed out that, despite numerous cases where people walking on the. road were knocked down by cars, seldom, if ever, had it happened that the victim Was a girl or woman who was wearing visible light coloured stockings. “ The idea should be carried further, he concluded. “ Women with long skirts should be asked to carry at the back a white shield or diamond, and men should wear a white seam down the backs of their trousers! ”