One of the minor problems of our lives in summer is; 1 think, stockings. Hats run them fairly close, but stockings are definitely, worse, Stockings may be considered flimsy little trifles of woven silk, but the can be very hot and uncomfortal on a sticky day. 'The new mesh stockings are, I imagine, an. im-Provement on the ones' we have worn hitherto, but they are expensive for these hard times. Even 0, the problem doesn't end there; stockings might in themselves bearable, but they have a habit of falling down unless some Jadequate means of support is provided for them. Garters, of course, serve the purpose; but since doctors insist (probably with malice aforethought) that garters are the direct feause of varicose veins, the woman tho wears them always has a Turbing- vision of ugly legs, when she, reaches middle age—and that, with faces. og they are nowed would be quite disastrous. There is. the: other alternative, but that means adding yet another garment to one's summer clothes which seems foolish thing to do in this heat.
In short, it is about time we women gave up this absurd habit wearing stockings in the summer, T've mentioned this before, but nobody seems to take much notice of me somehow, Legs, of course, often leave much to be desired—from the point of view of appearance, I mean. But we could sorely apply oer skill in improving upon nature to our legs just to our faces. We might even have leg beauty parlours.
With that difficulty out of the way, there seem to be no reasons eft for wearing stockings; except possibly if we go to play tennis at the Country Club, and even that is not very sound one for this is eke to. Wimbledon this hear from a friend-at home
Wet Tong tight fitting ike competitors wore frocks and not one of them, whether English or American, wore stockings. So it would seem that this much disputed fashion has Jat' last. been accepted by the authorities." Surely that is con-
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