Reign of Tall Girls.

Otago Witness, Issue 2892, 11 August 1909, Page 74

Reign of Tall Girls.

— At Its Height Now. but the Small Girl's Turn is Coming. — Brigades of exceptionally tall girls practically rule hospitality all ovei the country, declares the Lady's Pictorial. They need not be pretty or intelligent, for they are expected to do nothing except be tali. A tall girl season now means that every hostess must endeavour to produce a predominating impression of tallness at her parties. Tall dinners and tall dances become a social ambition ; small men find themselves suddenly useful as an effective means of creating a contrast when semiAmazons must be entertained. There is no limit which- can be regarded as reasonable when once the craze for tallness commences, yet at the moment when, with that mysterious facilitj of the feminine nature, tall girls seem to be looming up in all directions, the elict goes forth that her reign in over, and the little woman is in the ascendant. Men would seem to have rathei ingeniously guarded again.-t fashion- in height by becoming almost uniformly of medium .-tature. The present piediction of smaller men need not be taken r-eiious-ly; froni every point of view moderation in inches has been found eati.-factoiy. now that we never know from one year U another whether women are goiiijr to be iklku-lou-Iy s-mall or 'ib-urdly tall.