Proud of Their Legs!

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 497, 29 October 1928, Page 5

Proud of Their Legs!

QHORT skirts have certainly come to stay, for the young, the near-young, and the middle-aged woman. It is a surprising thing that no matter how great the difference in the respective feminine figures, skirts are universally short for the tall girl, the short girl, the thin girl, and her of the solid build. Katherine Tynan, the celebrated novelist, laments in the “Weekly Dispatch” at the never-ending regiments of legs which are seen on the London pavements. “The Paris divinity who rules our fashions legislates only for the beautiful and the rich,” says Miss Tynan. “The law becomes cruel when all the unbeautiful and the poor adopt the fashions.”

Girls Cling to Short Skirts Katherine Tynan Objects

fashion is admirably suited to the Australian woman. Climate has a good deal to do with it. The free and open-air life which the average girl or woman leads demands a minimum of hampering clothes. Golfers, tennis enthusiasts, business girls, and the like, would dread the thouglit of returing to long skirts, which are more difficult to keep clean, and cramp the . freedom which their shorter sisters i allow. Not For Ballroom For evening wear it is different. , Every girl realises now that the extremely Short skirt does not look so graceful in the ballroom as the long softly-draped creations which do sq help to hide shortcomings. Our girls generally are blessed with shapely limbs, hence they have few qualms about exhibiting them In beautiful silk stockings and smart high-heeled shoes. As a nation, we pride ourselves on our legs. Why worry as to the laments of old-fashioned Englishwomen who cannot become used to the change from flat-heeled. black, stout shoes* and cotton stockings, which were sufficient reason to make any self-respecting girl cover her legs to the ankles?