Dear Sir, Many thanks for the really splendid photograph of the bevy of unshingled girls, which my wife has added to her collection of interesting cuttings from “London Life.”
I myself find it difficult to reconcile a closely cropped head with the truly feminine woman, and I have never ceased to admire my wife and her young sister, who lives with us, for their pluck in refusing to have their tresses shorn.
Again, the current issue of “London Life” gives us a sturdy defence of the shaped waist from “Elsie J,” and I should like to offer her congratulation. My wife and her sister are both devotees of firm lacing, and ridicule the contention of anti lacers that tight-lacing results in loss of appetite, inability to take exercise, etc.
The other night, for instance, we went to the theatre and, it being a glorious evening, we walked the distance of 1½ miles. The two ladies wore shoes with 4½-inch heels, to “break them in,” as they laughingly remarked, and both admitted that their waists were laced in to the limit of endurance. During the play they unconcernedly consumed a pound of chocolates each, and afterwards ate a hearty supper, without turning a hair.
As a delightful picture, I have no desire to better that of my wife’s sister, and who is pretty and 17, when she wears a white silk frock, her dark curls falling to well below her hips, forming a wonderful background to her tiny-waisted figure.
I may mention that two years ago my sister-in-law had six inches of her lovely curls cut off by some villain, who received a sharp sentence for his villainy, the magistrate remarking that no punishment was too severe for such outrageous conduct, an attempt to destroy the beauty of the all-too-few crowning glories left to us in these closely cropped days.
Yours truly,
ATHU WELLS.