23 AUGUST 1957, Page 16

AUSTRALIAN WOMEN

SIR,—Although I agree in full with D. W. Brogan's disparaging remarks in his article 'Australian Felix' last week concerning food and hotels in that mighty land, I cannot let him get away with his foul aggres- sion against our glorious wotnen.

It is true they may resort to a jumper and skirt for protection against the weather, and such as he, for a few fleeting months of the year, but nevertheless would still be considered naked, as judged by the female inhabitants of the British Isles. As I see it the Australian lass in winter wears little more than the British women do in an English summer.—Yours