By Ouve Dux London, June 27.
As tthe French Revolution was the sansculotte age, so the present upheaval may come to be known as the "sans stocking" age. Three of every five girls you meet is bare-legged and the percentage is steadily increasing It began with the ban on silk stockings, A million or two were released a week or so ago, but the shopkeepers introduced their own rā- tioning of a pair or two to each customer, and anyway the price was prohibitive. In cold weather we had Perforce taken io lisle thread. But what female leg that had known the touch of silk or even rayon would willingly endure anything else? So when warm weather and clothes rationing came in together and a pair of stockings cost two precious Coupons, we joyfuly made a virtue of necessity and went bare-lo; The A. T. S. girls tried it too, but "were sternly told to go home and dress themselves. I read that court. martials are to be instituted for Service girls, og for men. Whether this attempt to do without IS was the last straw compelling the adoption of this severity, I cannot say. But at any rate bate legs were barred.
"Lobsters on Bicycles"
As I remember writing two years ago when bare legs were the rage (they practically went out last year) it is not every leg that can bear exposure to the naked eye in its own nakedness. The best effect is produced by wearing white Russian socks (which of course are doubly favoured now) with black shoes. With a coloured leg above the result is har-reasonably well-shoped and well-
monious. But Ido think that the majority of girls ought to make up their legs, especially if at week-ends they are ardent cyclists. Last Suh-day evening I happened to be In the High Street of Staines when myriads of cyclists were returning from the day's run. It had been a scorching day, and the girls, mostly arrayed in very short shorts, bare legs, and for Women for many years, is bark to in England from a long lecturing tour for the Ministry of Information. It took for through America, Canada, the Far East and her business. to tell the world what doing in the war,
you must have had her in Shanghai, with plenty of pictures. I imagine for since her return, in a public talk on her tour, she spoke with great feeling of the callous way in which the Jap: are holding up rice. Professor Cullis said that she thought the Japanese were looking tired and that they lacked the vitality of the ce., Ge, managed to get per.
"to lecture in Japan, but said wer Heart on Her Sleeve Among the designs is "Spitfire." in ally, which the bulls-eye insignia add in Tokyo and Kobe she heard German en on every side. But by wings of the RAF. are combined: "Brave Britain" repeats the if of the latest events the Japanese must be a tiny English daisy, with the letter One. shi getting decidedly fed-up on every-|B repeated twice; shether, "Flowers feel that way about the situation est. thing Germ: the 4 22. now okra since ob- goods withdraw the entire most Afier an exceptionally late scase stfewbetries are on sale again. was offered some this afternoon in a street market "t 3/- a pound though the shop price was 3/3 or 3/6. This seemed extravagant and I fore-to j doeskin jersey and ahnoünced that next week the Each it is to be controlled. Which means that and'on the labels we shall see no more strawberries this year. printed that tem fabric sales will be donated to the British American Atnbulance Corps.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.