BARE LEGS DENOUNCED
STOCKINGS MORE BEAUTIFUL. The bare-leg fad, which has threatened to become of universal importance during the past few years, has been denounced by all of the stage's foremost producers of musical comedies, those gentlemen firmly declaring that a leg encased in si|k stockings is far more beautiful than the nude limb. Laurence Schwab, of the New York producing team, Schwab and Mandel, and who co-directed Paramount's alltechnico our screen musicale, " Follow Thru," stated that all chorus girls appearing on Broadway have been required to wear hosiery. . " Hosiery gives the leg a distinct and sharp outline," says Schwab. " The sheen and lustre of silk hosiery enhance the roundness and form of the leg. In contrast, a bare leg looks flat. An ankle appears slimmer in hosiery than when bare, and. then there are blemishes that no amount of powder can effectively cover. Bare tanned legs look healthy but not as pretty as those encased in s r lk. Even if you want to give the effect of bare legs'it is better to wear flesh or tancolour stockings."
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Waipa Post, Volume 42, Issue 3263, 21 February 1931, Page 6
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