SKIRTS TOO SHORT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 260, 2 November 1928, Page 8

SKIRTS TOO SHORT

REBUKE FROM NEWSPAPER. Princess Astrid, consort of Prince Leopold, the heir to the Belgian Throne, has received a polite hint from the Belgian clerical newspaper “Le Vingtieme Siccle, ” that her skirts arp too short. Referring to her Royal Highness’ presence at the ceremony at Alons, the paper says that people are ( * certainly wrong” who say that she was wearing “a too parsimoniously measured frock. ’’ The paper adds that the error of a day or two does not prove anything, for the radiant beauty of the Princess arouses admiration, even without the addition of suHi trivial daring. “Our Sovereigns and Princes know only too well,” the article says, “that an example coming from the Throne or even from the steps of the Throne has irresistible force and is the most substantial Mr that can be opposed to shameless fashion. “They know too well that the people are accustomed to respect dignity to the degree to which thv Court itself respects it.” A piquant incident is recorded by the same journal. Recently, it appears, an insufficiently gowned ' lady was escorted from a Court ball by the. chamberlain, acting on the King’s orders, “so that she might” (as the official carefully put it) “repair an unfortunate rent in her gown.”