JUST BELOW THE KNEE

NZ Truth, Issue 1153, 5 January 1928, Page 3

JUST KNEE

Various Subterfuges ABOUT THAT BOYISH FIGURE A year or two ago we were told that skirts would be longer, and since then at every change of the season, we hear that, this time there is to be a decided change, and skirts must lengthen. And have they lengthened? But of course not. LJERE we are in the year of grace, 1927, displaying our I■*1 ■* knees shamelessly, and not in the least perturbed over the fact that in most cases those same knees are knobbly or bandy, or knock cheerfully together. If the overseas models are anything to go by, the hem line is, however, undergoing some changes. The length continues to be just underneath the knee, but various cunning- tricks are being devised so that a longer skirt length is suggested. Hems that dip here and there; skirts that touch the calf at the back; irregular fringed 'hems; floating trails of georgette on the evening frocks; trailing lace. panels, all do their best to accomplish the prophecy that skirts will be longer. The tailor-mades continue to show the tight, slim skirt that finishes an inch or so below the knee, but most of the newest evening frocks have done their utmost to get away from the scanty bits of glittering, heavily- beaded drapery that nearly every woman has bedecked herself with during this year. At least these newest foibles of the mode -will be a change, and one has become a little tired of that boyish-figure.