SLINKY OR FULL
FASHION IN SKIRTS. Skirts this season may be slinky or full to suit. It’s up to the girl to decide. She may be as slinkly as Cleopatra, or a demure beauty like her great-grand-mother. It’s a catholicity of style that the new season is ushering in. Skirts will trail the floor, bouffant, with lacy bands of horse-hair set underneath, or swing four inches above the ankle with a devil-may-care bravado. The skirt that is truly aesthetic and graceful, for dancing, is one that just brushes the instep —the length evolved by Paris designers for the cosmopolitan girl. It leaves one completely free for dancing. This type of dancing skirt must have plenty of swing, and so is made immensely wide at the hem, but over the hips it fits closely. Some of the prettiest of these kind are made with deep hip yokes, the fullness spreading below, yet not abruptly, for there must be no suggestion of bulk. The shorter skirts flare like dinner bells, since, to give them character, the designers stiffen them at the hem, like a ballerina's.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 January 1939, Page 8
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183SLINKY OR FULL Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 January 1939, Page 8
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