Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1957-07-10
Arthur
Says
RY-BIILY ARTHUR

NA"AN "NNNi DNN dlSO SN I'LL III
IT, someone has always had
something to say about how
much or how little skin and
bones ShoIld be revealed ur
unrCvCaled.
What was done about II,
Nothing. only the styles have
vacIIlatcd from cover all &c
cover less. ond now were al
parently headed back wnere
we started from.
There was the time back in
the ThirticS when q New Bcrr.
window dresser won q Llue
ribbon for mis- bathing suit d 5 o.
play. The ways who went with
his wife 10 Morch,ad City the
following week sid she had
taken the blue ribbon aid
made 4 SNim suit OF il.
There :oilowco summers
when bathing suits had more
material in them, but the Cy-
Gle moved as cyc.cs do till VIC
came to 1856. II wds then ""
told you that the only thing
the suits hid was the past. ara
that all the women were wear
ir@ at the ScaShorc was a smile
and make up.
We were far behind ne
times. In the $780, the Wa .
ington Gazette observed tlat
lat some of the summer resort 5
the girls are wearing silk tights
when bathing, an the skirts
are more SC2nt thar those Cf 4
ballet dancer. You pays your
money and you takes your
choice"
James Larkin Pearson At
trIbutcd mems attire to the de-
cline in marriages. He wrote ia
the Moravian Falls Fool Killer
that 1t Is being hoIscd abrC2u
that high sawSIcty is in danger
of becoming cXtiIct. hav,
been of the opinion for a l1rg
time that il StlnkO j, and if il
becomes cX-stinkod I dent
suppose anybody would care
much.
But here's what's the mat
ter. They say that the upper
crust and the hiGF flyers are
not getting married like they
ulster did. And the cause has
been tracked right down t.
the Scashorc and the publ,
bath. II is said tnal the men
and women who put on SIN
inches of bathing suit and e
in swimming together in Tho
brlny surf are getting so MS
GucStcd with each othc. 5
Scrawny ShankS and portruding
ribs that they are Just not get
ting married anymore. You
take . working man who doe.
something to build up a norm
al body. Then yCL take these
high society SWclls who nev"r
did anything but eat, dress a I'd
strut bet they look like
honcyS with their buds off aaC
every bit as graceful and cdp-
tlvating as 4 lot of fish ba *.
cts hung up on Slg poles. NJ
wonder the women get enough
of such sights ana let some.
body else do the marrying.
Nov, mind yc, I'm not say.
ing a word about what thC
feminine batherS look like.
never saw one OF the critters
They may everyone be Just as
physically perfect as Venus
and maybe the r.ale bather,
don't get tired LOOKING at them
But it takes two to get mar
ried, and it looks ike the sea-
shore has mighty nigh ruin
the business"
w. o. Saunders spoke hi!
piece about short skirts but ap-
plicable to beach wear. In tue
Elizabeth City Independent he
announced: Il am for the shor:
skirt, teddics, kn'ckerbockers
bobbed hair and everything
else that makes for the free
dom and comfort of wemep
The short skirt is with us &c
stay. Let the dear women max.
the most of it anG if there uj
a man who doesn't like it, LEI
him keep his hanoS off.
"Of course, the short SIX ri
like all innovations includinI
automobiles and h5;r tonic, i:
going to be much abused. The.
are a lot of silly little flappe-s
the offspring of weak and in.
different parents, who thIul
the short skirt ds designed
particularly to reveal the cal.
YES of their legs. Knowing n
better than that, they dres
their legs up in the showics
hosiery, take still another hen
in their skirts ana then parsG,
the streets where men ma,
ogle and appraisC their lines
The result is they are pursue,
by men who have more temp
erature than reason, and man.
a poor man finds himself e..
amored by a full pair Of stock