Fitzroy history – wearing a short skirt and golf socks to court
Eccentrically dressed bicycle riding Fitzroy hipsters are not a product of twenty-first century postmodernism. In this amusing anecdote from The Argus, Thursday, 27 April, 1933, p11, a young woman called Beatrice from Nicholson St Fitzroy appears in court charged with hanging on to a car for propulsion while riding her bike on St Kilda Rd. Her court appearance ensemble is described as ‘a sweater, with a short skirt and golf socks’. She’d fit in on Brunswick St today for her fashion as well as her attitude. She’s like so totally Gen Y.
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September 29th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
I love that the car was travelling 80 miles an hour up St Kilda Road. I’m impressed she could hang on.
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September 29th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
I’m sure what looks like an 8 is really a 3, so 30 miles an hour! I doubt there were any cars in Melbourne capable of 80 miles an hour in 1933.
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September 29th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
What a woman! I like the sound of her outfit, her ingenious transport method, and her attitude. All those pretty girls on bicycles…Where are they going? To Sandringham, apparently!
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September 29th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
I found her attitude particularly amusing!
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September 29th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
LMFAO
Good on her!
That couldn’t possibly be the Bea Miles, eccentric character who haunted mostly Sydney but made her way, by taxi, all over Oz and beyond?
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September 29th, 2009 at 6:05 pm
That’s a great connection! I want more details on her whereabouts c1933. More help from readers please!
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September 29th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
Yep, t’was the Bea Miles in our fair city, flouting the piddly laws and repeating her dastardly crime on a bicycle.
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September 30th, 2009 at 10:36 am
I would love to meet this woman. It’s so refreshing to note how little has changed in cycling in this fair city (cycle-cops, people not getting out of the way, wild clothing and free-behaviour). I bet her knee was swollen from a fox-trot accident. I’m in love with an older woman :-)
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