FROST-BITTEN FLAPPERS.

Putaruru Press, Volume VI, Issue 228, 15 March 1928, Page 2

FROST-BITTEN FLAPPERS.

CLOTHING CAMOUFLAGE. Cute Sort of Covering. Modern dress, “ the insane desire ” for a boyish appearance, and “ too much night life ” were held up by Dr. S. Adolphus Knopf, of New York, as causes for “ the alarming increase in the morbidity and mortality of tuberculosis among young women. Speaking before the third Race Betterment conference, held in Battle Creek, Michigan, Dr. Knopf, a major in the medical officers’ reserve corps of the U.S. Army, indicted the modern flapper for what she did, what, she wore, what she ate and what she drank.

“ The filmy modern dress of thin material, low" shoes, and silk stockings, worn in the coldest weather,” constituted the first cause of disease among young women, in Dr. Knopf’s opinion. He recommended periodic examinations to discover incipient tuberculosis and improvement in the housing conditions where young women live and work.

In Winnipeg many young women of the flapper type have been carried to hospitals suffering from frost-bite in the knees owing to their persisting in braving the frigid winter weather recently clad only in filmy clothes cut to the extreme in height.

In Chicago, where the weather has been frightfully fierce this winter, the secret of how girls with short skirts have been keeping their knees from freezing in zero temperature has just been, explained .by the statement that they wear two pairs of stockings. First comes a pair of light, close-knit, flesh-coloured woollen stockings, then a pair of sheer silk drawn over them. The wind does not penetrate them, and the deception is so complete, that the drug store cowboy canpot detect the deception, it is said. " This secret was given away ,by a department store manager, who said thousands of light woollen stockings had b'een sold, none seen on the streets.