“PLUS FIVE” SKIRT

Hokitika Guardian, 26 January 1925, Page 1

“PLUS FIVE” SKIRT

LONDON WOMEN’S CLUBS. SIR lAN HAMILTON’S VIEWS “There arc clubs and clubs in London ; some I am proud to open, others I would be still prouder to shut down” said General Sir Inn Hamilton, in opening a British Legion Club in London. “’There arc the night clubs,” he went on. “Festive places they are, with the furtive thought of a raid ever dangling like the sword of Damocles at the hack of the minds of the drinkers. This applies to the dancers, those gay young sparks in plus five skirts, who imagine they are carrying on with an officer of the Dragoons in mufti, | and may, for all they know, he twirling around a well-disguised officer of the Jaw. They never know their luck ; danger adds piquancy to their existence. “Other dubs, other manners, and some of the grandest are based on classconsciousness! From these clubs, may God preserve my few remaining grey hairs. Immaculate waiters gliding noiselessly over velvet-pile carpets, emptiness of rooms, vacancy of mind, dreariness, deadliness indescribable! “There are women’s clubs, too. perched upon the same exclusive eminences. Since babyhood my instinct has always moved me to regard women as the fountain of all goodness; and yet T must confess that there is a certain atmosphere of cocktails, .scented cigarette smoke, and bridge which is warranted to make n licensed victuallei- grow dizzv.”