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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 15, Issue 3 (June 1, 1940)

“Not a Thing to Wear.”

“Not a Thing to Wear.”

Contrarywise, women (who usually are) employed their cunning which has privileged them to boss man and claim his protection at the same time, to the task of coming unbuttoned. They discerned some years ago that a girl couldn't continue to capitalise the swoon or succeed with her traditional “shrinking violet” act with a barrage of buttons up her back that would make a blacksmith blanche and a contortionist come unjointed. So she completely debuttoned with the result that, to-day, women's clothes stay on by sheer luck and elastic. To-day, a buttoned girl is as rare as a zipped banana. And the time she saves by leaping into her petals she uses to prove how little Nature knew when she designed the female face.

“Definitely take ‘But’ out of Buttons.”

“Definitely take ‘But’ out of Buttons.”