SHORT SKIRTS.
SPOIL ROMANCE. SPAIN IN SYDNEY. Don Manuel de Mendival y Elio, commander of the Spanish training ship, now in Sydney Harbour, has a keen sense of humour as well as a knowledge of our language. He has a distinguished personality, and looked every inch a commander as he led his officers into the banquet room of the Town Hall to accept the civic hospitality of the City Commissioners. All the Spanish officers wore white uniforms.
“You know of Spain, mostly from novels, as a country of romantic passion and love, bull fights and toreadors, and dark-eyed brown ladies who carry daggers in their garters," he said, in responding to the welcome. “It is true that in Spain you meet some dark ladies just as you do here in Sydney and -everywhere, but in Spain also there are many blondes, and, as you know, ‘Gentlemen prefer blondes.’ In Spain now dresses arc so short that it is impossible for ladies.to hide daggers in their garters. Indeed, it seems almost that many ladies do not wear garters at all.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17606, 10 January 1929, Page 5
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179SHORT SKIRTS. Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17606, 10 January 1929, Page 5
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