The Olney Enterprise. (Olney, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, August 6, 1920 Page: 9 of 12
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THE OLNEY ENTERPRISE—100 Per Cent American
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DOESN’T THIS SETTLE THE
UNMATCHED ENDURANCE—ECONOMY AND SPEED.
LEGLESS HOSIERY
One part of newspapers and
periodicals that we never fail to
read is the part devoted exclusive-
ly to women and matters of femin-
tattooed on. I the revelation onesided, but a-good
But then, how would these per-! deal ^ess fleeting. With the advent
manent or semi-permanent designs] of the short skirt and the thin silk
fit in with their various costumes | stocking reticence vas tirown o
and color schemes? No, it is clear: the winds—we say wines ac -
that a really dressy woman would ; visedly and nothing was, iett ^ u
y J lcuu;1 mat a reauy aressy woman -
me interest. We do this partly in have to have her legs painted every ja tilmy mesh of colored gauze •<>
1 lie expectation of being shocked—'time she went out; a quiet drab for j keep ■ out the weather ant. the evi
we are every now and then— and j morning wear in the house, let us I eye. Now even that has been dis-
parity in hope of getting some sort ^say, a nice cool blue or pink for the \ carded, it seems, and we are soon
o! line on tlie ieminine point of ■ afternoon, cind. possibly sl splcisli of j to be £is faniilim* with cictiicil coloi
view, which becomes more and lavender or champagne color for ■ as we have "been with shape,
more mysterious to us the older we dinner dances and that sort of! On the whole, we cannot help
8T0W- j thing. The idea is not without its j feeling that the revelations have
The other day <as we were mak-1 attractive possibilities, but it cer- j been disappointing. ' When the
ing our way blushingly through! tainly is not economical, not with | dawn of the new freedom hit
the woman’s section of a New York, paint the price it is now. j Oriental countries and women laid
Sunday paper, we came on a long i Having disposed of the idea that! aside their yashmaks and took to
and very detailed account of a new;women have taken off their stock- i covering their faces with nothing
movement in favor of the abolition tngs to curtail expenses, the reader j but talcum powder, it was discov-
naturallv asks what the real reason j ered by a disillusioned world that
is. We can see. the reader turning j the famous beauties of the East
an intelligent glance upon us and, j were not at all what the rest of us
in urbane tones, remarking:! had' dreamed. Their Mohammedan
“Since you seem to have devoted j masters had been much wiser and
so much serious thought to this'kinder than the ladies themselves
subject, why the devil have they or anyone else ever suspected,
taken their stockings off?” The
reader might even go a little furth-
er and ask us, with a slight lift of
the eyebrow, if we regarded the
stockingless movement as a new
of stockings altogether. Naturally
we were aware that for some years
past stockings had been getting
thinner, and that the meshes had
been gettig wider and more filmy.
But we must confess that the an-
nouncement of their total disap-
pearance came as a bit of a shock.
Women have been abolishing so
much of their clothing in the past
few years that perhaps we should
have been prepared for this. The
denuded area has been extending
slowly downwards from the neck,
and it is only natural that it
should now start spreading up-
wards from the ankle. But we were
surprised just the same, showing
what a dear, ingenuous person we
are. But honestly, we couldn’t
help wondering, with both the
mftic zones of feminine apparel
entirely gone, and the temperate
zones rapidly going—to speak
geographically—well, we couldn’t
help asking ourselves in not un-
pieasing horror how long the
equatorial belt would be retained.
At first on reading this an-
nouncement about doing away
with stockings, if the transparent
arrangements women have been
wearing on their legs of late can be
so decribed, it occurred to us that
this was possibly a new feature of
the campaign against high prices.
In fact, we were considerably
cheered up by the thought of this
spirited protest against the extor-
tions of manufacturers and trades-
men. If profiteers would go on
insisting on their two hundred per
cent, it was sensible and plucky of
the girls to peel off their stockings
and hand them back.
This was our first thought, but
one glance at the illustrations
which accompanied the article-
one hurried; and embarrassed
glance—disabused us of the notion
At once we realized that whatever
dictate d the new policy of femin-
ine frightfulnes it was certainly
not economy. But then we might
have known this. No self-respect-
ing woman ever permits considera-
tions of economy to enter into the
purchase of any clothes except
those she may buy for her hus-
band—you know those-ties she gets
him at Christmas!
One of the pictures—the one we
looked at most rapidly—showed _ a
couple of comely young ladies in
San Francisco smiling sweetly at
the camera and displaying a con-
siderable expanse of stockingless
legs as they stepped into a waiting
taxi. The caption stated that they
were seeking refuge from the ad-
miring mob that had been follow-
ing them about the streets, in itself
father a sad indication of the state
of public morals in San Francisco.
It was perfectly clear that these
two young ladies had not taken off
their stockings for the purpose of
saving money. In the first place
they both wore elaborate and very
expenive cloaks of fur which were
not at all required by the weather
and which obviously cost enough
to keep them in stockings for the
rest of their lives, if they lived
to be a hundred and wore two
pairs at a time. Also the fact that
they were stepping into a taxi is in
itself a proof of the possession of
a large fortune and reckless habits
of expenditure. Moreover, they
were said to be movie stars, and
you know what that means in bul-
lion.
If we still retained any doubts
as to the motives which inspired
women to take up this new Bol-
shevism in dress, the rest of the
article settled them at once. It
told of the fashionable and ex-
tremely wealthy circles in which
the movement was rapidly gaining
ground. It even went so far as to
describe the intricate designs
which the dear girls were having
painted on their nether limbs.
We presume that some of the
more modest devotees of the new
fashion felt that they had to wear
something,' so they called in an
artist and handed their legs over
to him, so to speak. Naturally,
this sort of thing would cost a lot
of money—at least the older and
more married artists would expect
to be paid—and the designs would
have to be changed, from time to
time. Every Saturday night, for
instance—but then, of course, they
might use waterproof paint. They
Outside the home, at least, their
reputation for beauty had stood
high.
The same sad disillusion applies
to the reputed loveliness of female
assault upon masculine virtue. But limbs. It is very largely a myth
naturally this would only occur to To judge from the complete and
our more religious and snoopy j varied opportunities afforded for
renders. 1 [study by the more recent styles of
To be perfectly frank—and if [skirts and stockings, or the lack of
we are perfect in anything it is in i them, we are driven to the mourn-
the matter of frankness—we don’t ful recognition of the fact that the
know. Perhaps the dear girls havej limbs of the fairer and softer sex
started this thing merely as a fash-j are often much too big, much too
ionable whim. Perhaps their legs j fat and much too shapeless. And
felt too hot in stockings, and so! when they aren’t fat and shapeless
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they simply kicked the darn things
off. Perhaps they were searching
for the ultimate transparency. For
a long time stockings had been so
thin you could hardly see them.
Not that this is the universal rule
—certainly not! The ladies, for
instance, whp read these pages
possess, we feel sure, limbs whose
beauty—but delicacy forbids us to
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press purpose of furnishing a new! plantation of this movement for the
and more deadly allurement for | emancipation of legs. Women
the roving masculine eye. We would I may have started to go around
hate to think this, but we are com-; without stockings neither to save
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From' that it is only a step to get- j enlarge upon this. It is the others
ting them so thiifthey aren’t there; whose frankness we deplore, the
at all. How is a shy person of; others whom one sees getting into
pious upbringing to say which of i automobiles or standing on windy
these motives or a thousand others corners. They really shouldn’t
may have been the reason for the have had their skirts made so short
general order to down stockings? or slit so high. It was a tactical
~ ' ” blunder—presuming.
Are we editor of the Home Jour-
nal that we should know this thing ?
It may even be that women have
started this movement for the ex-
of - course,
that it was done with‘a view to at-
tract.
But there may be a nobler
pelled to admit its possibility. Men
are a lot scarcer than they used to
be, and they are said to be much
coyer and scary. Predatory ladies
may be compelled to resort to strat-
agem'^ which before the war they
would I have scorned. Not that we
have any personal reosons believing
the pursuit to be any keener now
than it used to be—on the contrary
In fact, we have often felt that our
virtue, impregnable as it^ is,would
perhaps be more robust if it had
more to struggle against. What
credit is there in being a teetotaler
when you can’t get any liquor?
Therefore we are in no position
to state positively and at first-
hand whether or not ladies have
discarded their hosiery with a view
to making their charms still more
potent by exposing them. All we
can say is tliat if such is their idea
in this particular case they are
certainly not realizing it. We hate
to be unehivalrous, but we are one
of those unfortunates who simply
have to blurt out the whole truth.
And the truth is that legs are not
aesthetic—not in more than one
case in a hundred—and this goes
for both sexes after the age of
three. •
Time was when Women’s legs
were regarded as something very
exquisite and shocking. In Vic-
torian days when a gentleman
naught a fleeting glimpse of ankle
in the midst of all the drapery the
prudish ladies of those distant
times hung about them, he blush-
ed and looked away, and couldn t
think of anything else for three
days. Legs were beautiful, for
they were mysterious.
The women of today have chang-
ed all that. First came the hobble
skirts of a few years ago, with
their startling revelations as ladies
climbed up on high street car steps
Then followed the slitskirt—
directoire” they used to call it, if
we remember well—which made
money nor to bring about matrim
ony, but solely for the purpose of
putting legs on a sensible, worka-
day basis, so to speak. They may
have felt that it was high time men
got over their silly notions on this
subject, and so have taken this
very effective method of destroy-
ing their romantic illusions.
Naturally, it is difficult even
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for the most sentimental of men to
go on regarding female legs as
something deliriously beautiful,
something that people either don’t
talk of at all or talk of too much,
when these same legs are to be seen
any day anywhere walking about
in undisguised and homely actual-
ity. The first bow-legged woman
he met—and they seem to be much
more numerous than we had ever
imagined—would effectually drive
all such silly notions out of his-
mind. And naturally this would
be a great gain for common sense
and efficiency—oh, any kind of
efficiency. But, of course, from
the point of view of charm and the
poetry of motion and all that—
well, doggone it, girls, personally
we would go right back to hoop
skirts. We’d keep the men guess-
ing as long as possible.—Personal-
ity.
The farmers do most of their
roaring about the weather and the
price of produce. Town people
complain of hard times and of the
fact that farm produce costs them
so much. We all manage to find
something to whine about.
This is what the present saturn-
alia of high prices amounts to.
Each is robbing the other, with the
result that every one of the chick-
ens come home to roost and the
water seeks its level, just as it al-
ways has and always will.
These highbrows that favor the
Bolshevist movement should move
to Russia, where the intellectuals
are not fed until all other classes
have had what they want.
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Shuffler, R. The Olney Enterprise. (Olney, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, August 6, 1920, newspaper, August 6, 1920; Olney, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1113683/m1/9/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Olney Community Library.