FEW CLOTHES AS POSSIBLE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 303, 14 March 1928, Page 4

FEW CLOTHES AS POSSIBLE

SPORTING GIRL OF TO-DAY AND YESTERDAY When guests of a house party went on shooting bent, 30 years ago, the women’s costumes were things at which we in our superior knowledge of clothes would laugh heartily to-day. A long sweeping skirt of “serviceable” navy blue serge fitted in closely to the waist with a shirt blouse over multitudinous petticoats, long “combinations,” camisoles, and the like, not to mention the necessary steel-boned corset which encased the figure in its unresisting grip. To-day the girl who is athletic wears as few clothes as possible. Take our tennis stars. They have found just how awkward too many skirts can be on the court, and as a rule dispense with petticoats altogether, the popular bloomers with chemise and brassiere being the only garments they wear under their pretty tennis frocks of white crepe de chine. Comfort in Golf With golf it is the same. A light frock, not too full, with the same limited amount of undies, is the right thing for summer wear, and in winter a blouse and skirt, with a woolly cardigan, stout brogues, crazily-knitted jazz stockings, and the familiar slouch felt hat are all the golfing girl has need of. Ask a girl to go riding with you today in her mother’s long flowing skirt, and sh ewould die of heart failure. She gets astride her mount to-day in smartly-cut corduroy pants, tinted silk blouse, with mannish tie and collar, and almost knee length boots. Her appearance would have shocked her mother years ago, almost as much as that same mother’s frock shocks her to-dajy