Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-03-05 | Page 11 | Miss 1851 Models a Gym Suit; It's Almost Whole Wardrobe

Miss 1851 Models Hostels a Gym Suit Its It's Almost Whole Wardrobe When great-grandmother great went to her high school gymnasium class back In 1851 she was vas so loaded down in clothing it was wasa a pretty tough job to do much exercising Because after she shed her bustle bustle bustle bus bus- tle numerous petticoats and skirts and donned gym dr dress ss she still was packing a lot of excess weight Amid some howls of laughter at the time old-time dress a parade of models demonstrated the evolution evolution evolution tion of the women's gym gym suit from I Ir 1851 to 1940 at a girls' girls assembly I r at East hi high h school Wednesday The 1851 1831 suit was a sort of horror something like the garb of an official executioner of medieval medieval medieval me me- times From that model on the suits became more practical step by step finally reaching the brief and comfortable garb of 1940 Also on the girls girls' assembly program program program pro pro- gram were time old-time music and dancing In charge were Mrs May K Baer dean of girls and Miss Bernice N. N Thomas gymnasium gymnasium slum instructor 1 Things Go From Bad to Goo Good in Women's Athletic Garb It Seems f h i iI t I I z za a F f rf i e w I NAV v Ayr w w wv w x THIS TillS TELLS OF Ol TilE THE EMANCIPATION OF TILE THE SCHOOL GIRLS GIRL'S GY GYMNASIUM SUIT They show how styles have changed over the years ears Left to right Eleanor Norton 1831 suit Helen Abraham 1879 Joanne L Romney 1889 Alice Folland 1897 Pauline 1907 1901 Ja Jane ne Bracken 1911 Miriam Wolfrom 1928 Mary 1935 Helen en cele 1940