Willy of Hollywood [dba Willy's of Hollywood] launched the topic of legs.
Willy is a stocking maker and leg camouflage expert in the movie city.
In fact, it is said that Willy can make stockings to give insoucient slenderness to the stumpy legs: a saucy challenge to the leg rather blocky and unshaped; whimsy, appeal and charm to the toughest, the stodgiest, the stiffest of feminine appurtenance which connects a shapely or otherwise ankle to the knee.
Recently Willy studied Miss Greer Garson as she was photographed in her kilt costume for the dance in Random Harvest.
These words he spoke more as a connoisseur than a critic, but nevertheless, the man whose speciality is reshaping feminine legs was not exactly pleased with Greer Garson’s. His comment sped across the ocean and into the London Mail. Garson read it, then she spoke.
“I,” said she, “have no need of a leg camouflager. My legs are my own; the ones with which I dance in Random Harvest. My paying customers have never complained about my legs. Now if this Willy is really a leg camouflager, I think he is rash. By advertising his trade, is he not, rather, biting the legs that feed him?”…
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