LATEST MODES

Hokitika Guardian, 21 June 1927, Page 2

LATEST MODES

WOMEN IN PANTALOONS. SYDNEY, June 9. Two or three very courageous women, falling into line with a fashion which, it is said, has been the vogue on the Continent for some time, appeared at a hig function in Sydney a night or two ago in pantaloons. According to a woman journalist, they wore “short frocks of taffeta, the bouffant skirts being cut above the knee with a transparent hemline of tulle, through which pantaloons of taffeta to match the frocks were clearly visible.” The same writer observes that, while the pantaloon leaves much to be desired in grarefullness, it would seem to indicate a definite step towards the adoption of trousers by women. “The transparent hem,” she adds, “which in most cases falls from the knees to just above the ankles, is probably a coneesion to the bust remaining remnant of what our grandmothers styled maidenly modesty. and will possibly disappear as the season advances.

At another big social function girls soiling novelties produced an unusual effect by wearing blue and gold ribbon anklets as distinguishing badges. To read at tbe same time of an old-fash-ioned waltz competition at one of these functions, suggests something incongruous. One woman at least in Sydney. affects a monocle; she is an enthusiastic patron of tbe Turf, and is a constant visitor to Rand wick.