BARE LEG CULT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3912, 28 February 1929, Page 1

BARE LEG CULT.

LADY WITHOUT STOCKINGS. AMERICAN’S INNOVATION. Ladies without stockings, nuaids and even matrons, are fairly plentiful about Auckland beaches these summer days when the mercury has a tendency to soar, but a lady about Queen Street with bare legs is something of a novelty, and as a fashion it has not yet caught on, although anything seems possible these days when modes are just as capricious as the wind (says the Star). A charming young American, Miss Blanchveld who is spending a holiday in Auckland, regards stockings as a superfluity, and she stated that the abbreviated skirt and bare-legged cult was just the thing at Atlantic (City, Hollywood and Honolulu, while in Sydney the new fashion was getting quite popular. This ddmurc and pleasant little lady called at the Star office to give some, details of the nejw mode. Browned by summer suns in many parts of the world, one might have thought at a casual glance that the visitor was wearing fleshcoloured hosiery of the kind which is both popular and deceiving, and thus save from prying eyes the new mode which Miss Blanc'hfield is setting escapes general observation in .the streets of th£ city. “No seams, no holes, no 'ladders,’ ” said Miss Blanchfield enthusiastically, “and when you get used to it you would not dream of wearing stockings.” She received an assurance that at least one person in Auckland was convinced that the bare-legged cult had much to commend it in the case of a young lady with one of those nice, smooth, velvety skins, but feelings of modesty precluded any. inquiries as to whether the fashion would be suitable for ladies with either varicose veins or hairy legs. ' “It’s very economical, and somebody has to start a fashion,” said the visitor with a radiant smile as she posed, by request, for a fareveil glance. “Why shouldn’t I?”