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"Back To The Bearskin Sack "

With M. E Pezet.

Living in the foothills of Fiji, as I do, fashions do not normally worry me. I see fashion photographs in women’s magazines, out they are just photographs. They bear no relation to my daily Ufe.

AFTER all, although the slimfitting sheath frock looks beautiful on the girl who is leaning back at an angle of about 20 degrees, what woman can go about her normal life leaning back at such an angle?

And what full-blooded woman would want to be as skinny as the model?

Look at those beach models, too. Their bathing costumes look good, but do they ever get into the water? And have you ever noticed what the models do with their legs and toes to make their poses look nice?

I stiffened my legs and tried to separate and curl my toes the way the models do The resultant cramp was ly j and ! thought that even if I mastered it, -re would n<ot anybody on the beach we ire quent to appreciate it, anyway.

These Pregnant Ladies

I let fashion pass me by until a recent flying visit to Suva The first thing to JS “sac™. a Not W f h S e a knows ht tat an the °Toman Ve in Ol it

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7 I was amazed at the number of pregnant women sitting around until they stood up. They were unpregnant women wearing “chemlse” tops.

My visit coincided with that of an American tourist ship. I was standing on the footpath

being amused by “sacks” and “chemises” when a bevy of women tourists in skin-tight pants saunted into my sight, All shapes, all sizes, tight jumpers and tight, tight, white matador pants. The pair that really intrigued me had ribbons tied around the calves. The wearer was not young.

By this time j b a d stopped worrying whether they saw me loo ki ng> 0 r not, and stood openly staring and grinning, when an even tighter, more flamboyant pair of ma t a dor pants caught my eye. So as not to appear too rude, r trotted into a nearby shop to i aug h out of sight, T stU died Vogue and McCall catalogues in the shops, and drove * home that night very conscioU s of my home-made dress tbp where it is sup be, a skirt on it that gives me freedom of movement, ordinary sandals that are com fortable to walk in, and a wind swept hair style that is wind swept because it is wind-swept Next day, I studied the fashion rather flamboyant hats. I also glanced through old Now, if you have never noticed the amazing similarity between high fashion hats and native hair styles, just try and pick between them in those After that, who cares about fashion, anyway?

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