WOMEN’S DRESS.

Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17447, 6 July 1928, Page 9

WOMEN’S DRESS.

(To the Editor.) gj rj i was much amused to-night when’ I found that our really gifted “Sightseer” was again basking in the limelight. His recent replies were too ridiculous to answer, but this one was like reading “The. Pilgrim’s Progress.” Perhaps our friend the editor could give him a job writing fashion notes

in the ladies’ page. He would get rich even, as a penny-a-liner. It also appears as if he has availed himself ol the whole of his relations too—unity is strength I suppose. As for the remarks by “Common Sense,” they are common sense and I agree with him. If “Sightseer” was indeed modest lie would have rung off this subject before now, but I suppose “where ignorance is bliss,” etc. Well, I do not wish to be a rival to “Sightseer’ as a journalist, so I will conclude with a toast, “The Ladies.” —I am, etc., A WATCHER.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —Kindly allow me space to ask vour correspondent “Sightseer” a question: Why blame women for wearing their skirts short? Have we not in this town of ours a band of musicians who often appear in public wearing short skirts that show a good six inches of bare leg above the knee. Perhaps it was men of this same clan who put the short skirt idea into woman’s head. Is “Sightseer” a man? I am more inclined to think she’s a woman wdth bow legs, who wants the long skirt back again for her own convenience. What happens when a “legshow” opera comes this way? Men (married and single) spend the whole day standing in a queue so as to he able to rush the front s-eats when the doors open. The best-dressed woman I ever saw had no skirt at all, but just a pair of “strides,” a pull-over, a scarf and woollen hat, as she w'enl rushing down the slopes of Ruapehu, a picture of health and beauty. Some women look nice in short skirts while some look silly, hut none look so silly as the guy in “Oxford bags.” I have always thought the Hamilton women too modest, for whenever I see one riding a bicycle she will risk an accident by letting go the handle-bar in order to cover her knees while passing one of the opposite sex. To see a woman bending over a pram ought to gladden the heart of any man, for does it not show that with all her modern ideas she is still able to enjoy God’s greatest of all gifts, which is motherhood. —I am, etc., U C. MOORLEG.