SPORTS GIRLS SURRENDER

Shannon News, 18 June 1929, Page 4

SPORTS GIRLS SURRENDER

MISS 1929 HIDES HER KNEES. The battle of the shorts for g: ramblers in the Peak district has bci lost and won.

Miss 1929, carefree, independent, ai kicking out for freedom, has bc< seized by the firm hand of public opi ion and severely spanked. Her bravado is gone. Now, wlu again told that she must modest cover her bare knees, she meekly obej She wears plus-fours instead. \ The change of apparel was larly noticeable during the Eas’ter ho days, when thousands of girls fro Shcffijcld, Manchester, and other par of Yorkshire and Lancashire trampi over the moors.

Villagers who had considered shor for girls as “disgusting” are frank pleased with the plus-four-girl. Th< regard her dress as both sensible ai suitable.

It is certainly mannish and sportir yet it does not take away the girlb figure; and the trousers, cut very fui have the appearance of a skirt, witJ out its disadvantages for walking ai climbing.

A Yorkshire tailor said that he ht received many orders for girls’ plu fours suits.' “If the plus-fours a: made right,” he said, “they can 100 smart. Nowadays a plus-fours suit regarded as the ordinary man’s pie sure outfit, and it is not surprisin that it should become popular with tl out-of-doors girl. “Incidentally, it shows that all tl talk about kilts for men is ridiculou Women are actually getting away fro the kilt.” ■