"UNDRESS" CLOTHES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 264, 4 August 1919, Page 4

"UNDRESS" CLOTHES

/ DANGEROUS TENDENCY AT LONDON COSTUME BALLS. "If s the thin end of tho uredgo," said a spectator at a recent costume ball in London on seeing slim maidens pouring in clad in various types Of trousers and breochcs. "And the other end of tho wedge you'll gee in a few minutes." Tho "other end" was soon personified in a "pixie." There was no back to her dress, thero was vory little front, and nothing to speak about in the way of sides. Tho skirt came to an abrupt end well above tho knee, the onlv other articles of dress wero a pair of black stockings and a pair of shoes. She was not alone in her daring either, for the general tendency was all .in this direction. Thero i 9 liberty enough in tho streets and thoroughfares these days; theatre dressw become scantier each night, but the climax is reached at the costume ball, where the. minimum ■ of concealment isaimed at, and what would onco have been considered daring on the beach at Ostend in the bathing 6eason now passes unnoticed in the general outbreak of "undress"' costume. Stockings will probably bo the next thing tojdisappear. Indeed, in some casos they have already done so, not only among the ladieo, but on tho male sido, too, A tunic of silver, .reaching no further than halfway . down tho hips was tho complete'costume of a dancer at a recent ball, unless tho stain with which he had darkened his legs and arms can be included as "clothing."

The death occurred in Christchurch last week of Miss Jean Mackenzie, after a very short illness. Miss Mackenzie was formerly a resident of Tinioru, to which town her parents belong. She was trained in St. Helens Hospital, and had been practising as a nurse for'a year 'or two. The death took placo at the residence of her sister, Mrs. A. B. Lane, 22 Knowles Street, Christchurch.