| After you have acquired your boots and skates, | | | | are putting out such attractive and becoming figure |
| your thoughts will turn naturally to the clothes you | | | | skating outfits that lots of young girls are taking up |
| will wear for your first appearance. Make no mistake | | | | the sport! |
| about it; a smart costume on the ice is half the | | | | As for the rest of the costume, good sense and a |
| battle. If you are a man, you will probably decide to | | | | certain amount of fashion should dictate. Sweaters |
| do your first skating in long trousers plus an ordinary | | | | with skirts are always good, but if you are going to |
| coat or sweater, and that is all right. If you are a | | | | an indoor rink, don't make the mistake, as one of my |
| woman and an absolute beginner and expect to do a | | | | friends did, of wearing a heavy sweater, a stocking |
| certain amount of rail clinging for a while, you will | | | | cap, and fur-lined mitts. Most rinks are heated |
| probably think you will be less conspicuous in a long | | | | nowadays, so it is well to inquire first. On the other |
| skirt, a sort of modified street costume. There you | | | | hand, trim windbreakers, parkas, and turtleneck |
| are wrong. | | | | sweaters are perfect for pond skating. Big hats are |
| For a woman the traditional costume is as set for | | | | out of place on the ice. The closer fitting the cap, |
| the ice rink as it is for the tennis court or the ski | | | | the trimmer the appearance. Streamlining is as |
| slope. A long skirt will make any woman stand out | | | | suitable to the skating figure as it is to an automobile |
| like a sore thumb on any ice surface, just as a long | | | | chassis. |
| black skirt would make her an object of special | | | | Anything that doesn't contribute to an impression of |
| attention on any tennis court. So remember this | | | | speed and freedom of movement is undesirable. That |
| when you buy your costume: if you want your first | | | | is why the bodices of skating dresses should be |
| few wobbly strokes to go as unnoticed as possible, | | | | molded to the figure. That is why trunks should |
| be sure to dress in the accepted mode. If you dress | | | | never be large and bulky - but, contrary-wise the too |
| like a reasonably expert skater (whether you are or | | | | tight, too high little panty that some good skaters |
| not), you'll find that people are much too preoccupied | | | | are now affecting is ugly, too. Trunks should as a |
| with their own edges to pay any attention to yours. | | | | general rule match the skirt and be as inconspicuous |
| The accepted style for skating skirts and dresses | | | | as possible. Excellent nylon tights are available at |
| has a full circular, gored, or pleated skirt which flares | | | | most stores, while wool and nylon tights may also be |
| from the hipline. Plenty of stores now have the most | | | | procured. The latter are fine for outdoor skating in |
| chic, correct, and practical costumes imaginable - and | | | | cold climates. |
| at very small cost. In fact it is because the stores | | | | |