Dress Sense
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Papuans Have a Dress Sense
Australian Parliamentary Op position Leader, Mr. Arthur Calwell, thinks young Papuan girls have dress sense “as good as that of any Australian girl”.
He told a Press conference this in Port Moresby on July 1.
“Improved dress sense and taste in the clothes of the young native girls is one of the first things that I noticed,” Mr. Cal well said.
He said that young ones md young mothers particularly seemed to have chosen clothes vith great care.
“They use bright colours in heir dress wonderfully. Some vere even wearing hairnets.”
After this statement, some ocal people wondered if Mr.
Calwell had been correctly re ported!
There has been an improve nent in Papuan dress in the last ew years, but it’s hardly up to he Australian mainland stan ards yet—nor would anybody xpect it to be.