HOW THEY DRESS

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14584, 5 February 1921, Page 15 (Supplement)

HOW THEY DRESS

(From our London Correspondent.)

LONDON, December 9

Gallantry compels us to repudiate the Idea that the lady could he more than—shall we Bay 30? Besides, her clothes demonstrated, or were intended to demonstrate her comparative Juvenility, and mere facial Indications ought not to weigh against nice clothes. She sat In a tube train, resplendant amongst the passengers. Her V was Just, as low as it could well he; there was a good stretch of white arm between sleeve and glove, and her skirt was so abbreviated that no room was left for doubt that the colour—a light blue —of her stockings wag Just the same kneeward as it was nnkleward. When she crossed her legs—as she did —the fact was accentuated. We wondered what her grandchildren—assuming, of course. I hat there are any—would think of her gel-up If they chanced in and scanned her with the critical eye of latter-day precocity. Beside her sat a smartlydressod girl of about 20. She had no V, nor was there the smallest show of nudity between sleeve and glove, and she wore a skirt of such length that the world got not a scrap of information about the colour of her stockings —indeed could hardly learn, while she remained seated, whether she wore hoots or shoes. Rarely have we seen so sharp a contrast in dress between two svomen and the decorum of attire was all on the side of the girl. An experienced and observing woman writer tells us that this is not now so common as one might imagine. Women whom she called "old" —a word wo would not for worlds ourselves use in respect of any of the gentle sexstick to and disport themselves in the short skirt of a dying fashion and give strangers a leg-show once reserved for the corps de ballet; while more knowledgable voting girls—especially those who have not "bob'bed" their hair — cover their bosoms and their limbs, in the pleasant certainty that any man worth bothering about likes best to see ;hem so apparelled. Apropos, a gallant constable giving evidence this week used the word "lady." "Now what do you mean?" asked the presiding magistrate. "Female, sir," was the prompt repjy. Apropos, also Is a report Just published here that, the Mayor of Warran, Ohio, has forbidden the "fox-trot," the most popular dance in America, not so much because of the attire .:ustornary at such exercises, but because "it permits young men to kiss their partners with facility." What a beast tl at raan must be I