Rarotonga Pleasantly

Shocked Ultra-Modern “Going Ashore”

Dresses

From Our Own Correspondent

Rarotonga, Jan. 20.

LADY passengers coming ashore at Rarotonga off the mail boats, treat us to glimpses of what we take to be advanced ideas in fashion in the fem inine world.

Plus-fours raged for a while. After we had come finally to accept these as the recognised “going ashore” dress, we were at once astonished and de lighted at the appearance of “shorts.” with a kind of singlet, as the upper garment.

From time to time reports have reached us of the new “back to nature” cult sweeping across Europe; and we had therefore steeled ourselves for the appearance of a dress something on the lines of athletic V’s with brassieres.

For a moment, however, fashion seems to have taken a twist in alto gether a different direction. Split skirts are now the vogue. The singlet idea for the upper garment still re mains, but with this difference, that the thing is worn as a kind of body bandage, with the usual thin shoulder straps.

We get so many thrills in dress nov elties from those coming ashore off the mail boats, that the appearance of lido pyjamas amongst our own wo menfolk leaves us stone cold in appre ciation of Fashion’s drastic changes in feminine dress.