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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 15, 1988.
This Is The Costume For A Swim Pool
The History of Chairs
By Elizabeth MacRae Boykin
Sometime in the dim far reaches tribe began to want something just of antiquity, man, the animal, dia- # little better than his underlings covered that one of the most satis- (as chiefs and dictators do to this fying ways of resting his ‚weary- day). · So somewhere 'sometime. bones was to fold himself into a thousands of years ago, a real chair queer upright position and sit him- was devised. On down through the self down. 'Twas natural then for centuries has marched a parade of him to progress from the ground to chairs-high chairs, low chairs; the use of a nice smooth top rock as chairs with and without arms, high- a sitting place. And finally to backed, fiddle-backed, lyre-backed, evolve a crude kind of a chair. rocking, straight, uncomfortable, But gradually the chief of the comfortable, plain and upholstered.
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Pause in your comfort to give a little thanks for the simple chair,
one of the most ingenious and use- ful inventions of man.
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The development of these, the
names of their designers, forms a fascinating story.
From
the folding cross-legged Roman stools to the most modern tubular steel chair, the history of chairs is a wonderful tale of people brightening the corners where they sit!
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This attractive linen suit owes its good looks not only to its clever cut but to the embroidery which trims the smartly brief jacket and the skirt hem.
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It is most effective with the flowers worked in very bright colours.
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If you do much swimming in a bath read what Mr. MacGibbon, a bath superintendent of Southamp- ton has to say about bathing cos- tumes.
"I am delighted to see ladies in brassieres and trunks at the baths.
"They look very nice
and
they are better than costumes because fluff from costumes con- taminates the water."
The young lady in the picture is wearing just the garment, that won the approval of Mr. MacGibbon and doesn't she look nice?
pretty uncomfortable race up until 1600.
Chairs were few and far be- tween and those in existence were not, certainly, a modern's idea of solid comfort. Kings and high prin- ces had chairs (or more accurately "thrones"), but the average home boasted at best a hard oaken chest with arms and a back. The Tudor chair,, up until the close of the 16th century, was a box with a back and arms. It was late in the reign of Good Queen Bess that upholstered chairs became popular. In 1597, Sir John Harriggon wrote: "the fashion of cushioned chayrs is taken up in every merchant's house.” Up till then wooden seats, of the types described above, had been the order, or at best leather covered seats from Spain which were highly decorative but not too easy. In the latter part of Elizabeth's reign, lose cushions began to be used for chairs and window seats, and these covered with velvet, satin embroider- ed in colours, with pearle for orna- ment and with gold and silver lace.
Simple as a chair may look, it is one of the most Ingenious and use- ful inventions of man. So we might pause, in our confort to give a little thanks to it, and it creators, for our hours of ease.
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