Kilted Americans.

Waikato Independent, Volume XVIII, Issue 1741, 18 April 1916, Page 6

Kilted Americans.

American women persist in their ia.d for short, full skirts, and the showing ef two or three inches of stockings above the high'shoe Mips : s " ustonmry,. while much shorter skirts are. mi many instances, not uncommon ; writes a New York correspondent). £0 greatly has the fad grown alb ox er r)ie country that the City Council of Toledo, Ohio, has passed an ordinance that women must wear skirts reaching within throe inches of the ankle, under penalty of fine and imprisonment, but the police say they cannot enforce it, because they cannot determine exactly at what point a woman’s ankle exists, and they may be liable to mistake in arresting a girl, against the length of whose

skirts there is no laxv, instead ' f a woman. On the other hand, the State Legislature of Virginia has defeated a Bill to prohibit women from wearing skirts that do not reach within four indies of the ground. And jolly old New York legislators say nothing except that if the girls and women can stand it, the men admire them as intended A women’s convention recently passed a resolution against wearing dresses “ too far from the ground at the bottom and not far enough at the top,” but the caricaturists merely smiled, and the world went on as usual.