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Jean Patou-High waistlines, skirts five inches below the knee for sports, just clearing the floor at night. The "Egyptian silhouet," evening gowns with a draped front, skirt slit to the calf. Peaked cloth caps for winter sports with fur ear-laps á la Kennebunk Port. Featured colors: dark yellow, green, astrakhan beige...
Reason for this abrupt abandonment of the long-skirted mode: On the second day the Heavens opened, shot a bolt of lightning which killed popular Bookie Walter Holbein as he was accepting bets, then poured such a Biblical deluge that water backed up six inches deep in parts of the Royal Enclosure, svelte ladies lost their shoes in the mud, everyone's long skirt got spattered and trampled, picture hats were lost, soaked and crushed in the mad scramble for cover, everyone's car or bus seemed to stick in the mire, and long after dark bedraggled gentlemen...
...third (post-deluge) day (which incidentally was fine),the Conservative Evening Standard's male representative at Ascot described as follows for readers who include most of the peerage what seemed to him to be the actual mode this year: "A tight-fitting bodice of transparent muslin with a skirt which may be made in one of two ways: either it is a mass of narrow frills from waist to hem or is gathered at the waist and flows outward, measuring goodness knows how many yards in circumference around the feet...
...Gamma Pitkin, who had asked her up. There was some roughhousing on the ice called a moccasin dance, discreeter dances indoors; skating, tobogganing, skiing went on next morning, but the most interesting event was the slalom race. Down from the top of Balch Hill, toward the dark skirt of pinewoods and the scattered crowd plunged the slalomers with a spiked pole in each hand. A slalom race is an obstacle race on skis; all the way down the course little red flags nailed to stakes on the white curve of the mountain pointed the racers to sudden curves around tree...
...From the painter's point of view, a woman is merely a short-legged animal. In a long skirt . . . the effect of her short legs and disproportionately large head is softened, but cut her off in a horizontal line at her knees and hips and have two awkward Indian club legs dangling below, and you have a problem that is truly impossible...