HEAT-WAVE OUTFIT.
DRESSING TO KEEP COOL. London, July 7.—The prolonged heat wave is responsible for a startling evolution in women’s dress in England. The 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 regarded as essential. West End firms display “the summer girl’s heat wave outfit,” weighing 9joz. It comprises a muslin frock Goz, undies, two items, 2oz, silk stockings loz, and garters loz. Corsets are regarded as non-essential, and are rarely worn. A man’s lightest outfit weighs 41b 15oz. There is i similar movement at the seaside, where jazz-coloured cretonne costumes for women and short trunks for men are quite the fashion. The correspondent of the “Daily Mail” at Paris states that restaurant habitues in the Bois de Boulogne gasped yesterday at the spectacle of three men in cool silk pyjamas of variegated hues, who entered a restaurant accompanied by three pretty women.
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Wairarapa Age, 5 August 1921, Page 7
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