SHORT SKIRTS PRAISED

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 756, 31 August 1929, Page 38

SHORT SKIRTS PRAISED

DEAN INGE IN SONG VALUE OF SUNLIGHT The value of sunlight on the human frame has been proclaimed by Dean Inge of St. Paul’s Cathedral with the following bit of verse which he recited at the opening meeting of the Sunlight League: Half an Inch shorter, half an inch shorter, Same skirts for mother and daughter When the wind blows, Everything shows, Both what should and what didn’t oughter. He praised the woman’s revolt from the extensive covering they Indulged in 40 or 50 years ago, saying that the movement of the Sunlight League was carrying on further the salutary effects of milady’s discard of heavy clothes. "However, we have to beware of admitting cranks and freaks,” he said. “There is a certain sect on the Continent, and particularly in Germany, which believes in walking about nude. In Germany it is possible to see bands |of young enthusiasts of both sexes going about without clothes. There is nothing objectionable in that. But clothes are a matter of convention, and it is necessary to hold at arms’ length certain unwholesome people.”