#Teens girls inshort shorts skin#

The fashion houses and couturiers have made their contribution and suitable clothing is available at prices all can afford. This is especially important if there is a familial tendency to chilblains and cold extremities. This very distressing condition can be completely prevented by adequate protection from cold in teenage girls. Erythrocyanosis frigida is not seen in men on account of the protection of tweed trousers and underpants. It was never seen in the days of red flannel petticoats, woollen bloomers, woollen stockings to the groin, boots to the knees and skirts to the floor. It was originally called 'silk stocking disease'. In very severe erythrocyanosis the lumpy fatty masses may liquefy and burst through the skin, leaving painful and intractable ulcers.Įrythrocyanosis was first observed after the introduction of silk stockings and short skirts.

#Teens girls inshort shorts skin#

Cuffs of fat covered by coarse skin overhang the ankles and shoes. The swelling, due to accumulation of fluid in the subcutaneous fat, disappears with rest, in the early stages, but later on becomes replaced by increasing quantities of lumpy fatty tissue until the leg becomes grossly enlarged and shapeless. Swelling, at first confined to ankles and feet, gradually spreads up the limb. The minute pits in the skin produced by the hair follicles, and scarcely visible normally, are much enlarged, giving the skin a very coarse appearance. The back of the calves of the legs and the outside side of the legs are an ugly bluish colour in cold weather and an even uglier beefy red in hot weather. The effect of chronic exposure to cold - erythrocyanosis frigida crurarum puellarum - are usually noticed in the late teens.

on their way back to inadequately heated houses.

Hundreds of thousands of girls with an inherited tendency to cold extremities live in poorly heated houses, stand in cold bus queues in order to reach cold factories or offices where they sit with inactive muscles until it is time to repeat the cold bus queues etc. A tendency to cold legs and feet and a rather 'poor circulation' - 'just like mother's' - is extremely common in girls. The result of exposure to these temperatures is unlikely to have serious effects unless the circulation in the legs is 'poor' and there is a family history of hyper-sensitivity to cold. Exposures to temperatures as high as 50-55 degrees F (average summer temperature 55 degrees F) can cause damage to the tissues. The disastrous effects of prolonged exposure to cold are not sufficiently widely appreciated. They are therefore virtually unprotected in cold weather from the hips downwards. These girls, I am told by my assistants, wear practically nothing under their skirts. I have seen many girls in nylon stockings, or even bare legs, and short skirts shivering in bus queues.

In spite of the increasing popularity of sensible warm clothing among teenage girls there are still many girls who do not avail themselves of the gaily patterned thick stockings, attractive 'bloomers', well-cut trousers and high boots which are readily available.