STOCKINGS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 January 1929, Page 2

STOCKINGS

A SUPERFLUITY. AUCKLAND, January 16. A charming young American, M.iss Trail F. Blanchfield, off New York, who is spending a holiday in Auckland, regards stockings as a superfluity, and she stated yesterday that the abbreviated skirt and barelegged cult was just the thing at Atlantic City,. Hollywood and Honolulu, while in Sydney the new fashion was getting quite popular. This demure and pleasant little lady called at the “Star” office yesterday to give some details of the new mode, and while a lady member of the staff acted as chaperone a somewhat embarrassed reporter gazed with becoming modesty and pardonable interest at a dimpled knee, dainty call and exquisite ankle browned by summer suns in many parts of the world. One might have thought at a casual glance that the visitor was wearing flesh coloured hosiery off a kind when is both popular and deceiving. The new mode, which M iss Blanchfield is setting, escapes general observation in the streets of the city. “No seams, no holes, no ladders,” said Miss lllanehfield enthusiastically, “ and when you get used to it you would not dream ol wearing stockings. “ It’s very economical, and somebody has to start a fashion,” said the visitor with a radiant smile. “ Why shouldn’t I?”