UTOPIA

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 10, Issue 64, 18 December 1946, Page 1 (Supplement)

UTOPIA

IF MEN HAD THEIR WAY I gather that if men had their way about it, there would be living mannequins in shop windows, instead of dummies. Women would all have daffodil-col-oured hair, which they would wear in very long bobs, a little wavy at the ends. They would never, never comb it in public, however. They would always go hatless in summer and blow beautifully in the wind, and any hats they" wore in the winter would be large and romantic, never little and silly. But regardless of how large a lady’s hat was, it would never flip and flop and never have to be clutched with the hand, not even in a hurricane.

Day-time skirts would always be short —if men had their way —but not too short, and evening skirts, though long and sinuous and trailing, would be split to the knee. Stockings would be black and sheer, and the seams would he straight as plummetlines. Feminine shoes would always be dainty, and amusingly small and very high-heeled, and yet at the same time women would always be able to trudge

for miles in these shoes without tiring, and without halting, and above all without mincing

Make-up would never look like make-up if men had their way, and it would never have to be replenished under any circumstances. Finger-nails would »be short and pink, not long and red. A law would be passed forbidding women ever to wear slacks, except perhaps in war factories. Bathing suits would not be sold to any female larger than a size 16.

Lap. dogs would be exterminated if men ruled the universe, and no one would ever put anything in a different place from where they would have put it, and all meals would consist of oysters, steak, mashed potatoes with gravy, and pie. There would not be any goblets with stems, or any d-oyleys, big or little, or any. fancy salads. And speaking of eating, there would never be any women in the restaurants where men like to lunch —unless, of course, they themselves chanced to be lunching with a woman. If men had everything to suit themselves the average wife would combine the best features of Greer Garson (as Mrs Miniver) and Gypsy Rose Lee (as Gypsy Rose Lee), together with those of a blue-ribbon cook, a certified public accountant, an angel from ' heaven and the man’s own mother.