The Archive · 1937

GIRLS—BE NEAT AND

TIDY!

Helpful Hints for the Young Athlete cardigan, softly tailored of white or navy flannel and bound with silk ribbon, is just the thing to slip on between matches. Quick distraction from any "breathless,. sweaty" after effects that men object to in women but consider all right for themselves.

We have it from a male sports writer that "women never look worse than when they are taking violent exercise." The men would prefer us always to look "beautiful, calm, intelligently powdered, neat and tidy."

That's a large order, girls, but Miss Eleanor Tennant, California teacher of the United States national tennis champion, and cinema actresses, believes that the "neat and tidy, calm and beautiful" appearance can be encouraged by the right clothes for the game.

She recommends chalk white for the tennis costume; the tennis dress, rather than shorts or slacks, as the most attractive and most comfortable garb in action; a white cotton visor that has a bias headband, to tie on snugly, as the smartest eyeshade; white Wool socks but not angora (they get fuzzy and wear out too soon); regulation tennis shoes in white. Underpinnings might well consist of a white pantie-girdle and a brassiere.

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