A GOLFING PROBLEM

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21184, 6 August 1940, Page 3

A GOLFING PROBLEM

Keeping The Clothes Handicap Down

Keeping the clothes handicap down is quite a question for the woman golfer. Fortunately, it is one thing that you may get champion results from without having to take a course of lessons “to learn how.” Taking a tour of inspection in the sports wear departments, you’ll find that they have anticipated almost everything the feminine golfer’s heart desires. You’ll see gorgeous skirts and suits, gay as rainbows in their vivid tweedy mixtures. You’ll find “soft as a kitten’s ear” sweaters from Braemar and the Shetlands. And you will admire and desire the jaunty proofed jackets and wind-breakers. But don’t stop here. If you want additional novelty and practicability in your golfing outfit, you must go in search of the required items. The costume jewellery counter is one place where you may strike something very saucy to hold your golj! tee^. At most sports goods shops you will find other novelties in this line, and all the inventions are made with ! the express wish at heart to make your initial search for your tees your final one, too. As any golfer, good, bed, or indifferent, will tell you, that is certainly something! Tees do have a quaint old custom of their own of vanishing into the limbo on the slightest provocation. Amusing ways of holding a ready supply of tees may be come by in several easy ways. First, you could sew loops along the yoke edge of your blouse or jacket and insert the tees therein. Or you could have small perforations cut in the tongues of

your golf shoes and stick a few bright tees in there. Everyone’s so busy knitting comforts for the men in the fighting forces just now and enthusiastic golfers might take a tip from some of the mitts and gloves they are knitting for soldiers, airmen, and seamen by making their own golf mittens in similar patterns. Such a style would be thumbless and fingerless, crocheted loops keeping the body of the mitt warmly down over the oalm and wrists. Golf Sock Sensation Knitted hoods are a warm idea, too, for the young girl who golfs. Also rather on the youthful side is the new golf sock sensation. Something new from America is the idea for wearing knee-length socks instead of the short ankle ones heretofore so popular. You’ll have to hunt for these in the men’s wear departments. I’ve seen some dandy ones made of lisle thread and intended for men but admirably suited to this new feminine fashion. If they’re plain,, they li»dk even nicer embroidered with sprigs of Swiss flowers in tiddl\vwink colours of wool. You’ll need Alim legs to wear them, though. Another idea is to buy up a few pairs of men’s golf socks of the bright plaid and striped sort that used to be worn with plus-fours in the good old days. These look grand worn with your tweedy skirt and wind-jacket, but, what’s more in their favour, they’re good and warm into the bargain.