A BLESSING TO MOTORISTS?

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12613, 25 November 1926, Page 11

A BLESSING TO MOTORISTS?

FLESH-COLOURED STOCKINGS ' • “YOU CAN’T MSS THEM.” (By Telegraph—Special to “Times.”) NAPIER, November 24. If a Napier motorist is right, fleshcoloured stockings have a practical use which is probably undreamt of by their wearers. “As a guide to car drivers at night, and as a preventive of possible accidents, short skirts disclosing a length of light-coloured stocking are invaluable.” he said. “Whatever else the car headlights may fail to pick up distinctly there is northing ambiguous about a pair of feminine legs twinkling along, clad in their highly-coloured shcatnings. You simply can’t miss them, and I’m open to gamble that light-coloured stockings have saved more than one woman or girl from being run over.” In alleged substantiation of his contentions, the motorist asserted that, dispite tho many cases where people walking on a road are knocked down by oars, it seldom happens that the victim is a girl or-woman who is wearing light-coloured stockings. “The idea should be carried further,” he said. “Women with long skirts should be asked to carry at the back a white shield or diamond, and men should wear a white beam down the back of their trousers.”