The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-06
HOU About Permits?
THE CONSERVATION in those

L sports at the time Westbrook PegIer
similar TO that which
reignS in the lady golf tournaments, but simplicity
and negligbility Won They likely are to win in
golf also, as there seems to be no power strong
enough compel the ladies to wear dresses or even
long trousers once they decide that they look and
feel better in the negLgibles
There never has been any complaint from the
males beyond tactful suggestion, now and then,
that females desiring to wear shorts, or less for
swimming. tennis golf should be required to OBJ
tain permits from a sort Of art committee. The
trouble has always been that some ladies insist
wearing the minimum who are not qualified by ma
ture to do The result, in many cases, has been
depressing to behOlders and the need for jury to
pass the applicants never will be more urgent
in any sport than in the game of golf.
The fact is that golf, being a walking game,
likely is to develop type of leg which is known as
the pool table orpano leg, which is not suitable for
gazing at. Female mixers and campers acquire the
same sturdy but rather inartistic development and
it is an interesting fact that those ladies who are
least qualified to shorts generally are most
determined to them
With the disappearance Of the WalruS types from
the swimming teams some years ago the trend to-
ward negligibility in swimming costumes was well
coined by press and public 1t was welcomed with
special heartness by the press as the fashion pro-
duced many interesting pictures for the rotograves
and simplifed the task of the art editors con-
sderably.
There was brief situation in the course of the
OLYMPIC ladies' diving events in Los Angeles two
wears ago when some anonymous official interrupted
the proceedings to order that Miss Georgia Coleman
her dressing room ana put OH IlOtt
ing This order was disapproved vigorously by the
customers sitting about the pool, but Miss Coleman
herself did not protest. She went away and reap
peared for the diving wearing a swimming suit which
looked as though it had been tailored for Primo
Camera The costume sagged and hung down IN
loose folds but Miss Coleman is a lady who could
look charming in Mother Hubbard In tact she did
EmDire Still Stands
T~HE tennis ladies a little more demure
They first left off their stockings except on the
courts of Wimbledon, where her majesty the queen,
always a conservative in the matter Of dress, ala
not approve of the nude feminine leg as pubic
spectacle and her wishes dealt the athletes set
back on the way to negligibility Hut the nude limb
was seen everywhere on the American courts al
though Mrs Helen Wills Moody, another conserVa-
tive continued to wear stockings long after tAe
others had abandoned them.
This year. even in the English tournaments
shorts were worn and the empire, at last reports
had not fallen The style is a mitlgated pleasure
from the standpoint Of the customer, however
Tennis being a running and jumping game also
tends to produce piano and pool table effects.
The pioneers insist that they have no interest
in the spectacular effect but interested solely
in nhvsical freedom for strenuous activity.
Up to this time however, ladies who go IN Tor
Moving. milking hoeng and such chores on the
farms have not found it necessary to adopt shorts
But then maybe you would not call these pursuits
strenuous activity.
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