Oh Say, Can You Ski! Katherine Dodds Iowa State College

Volume 18 Article 4 Number 7 The Iowa Homemaker vol.18, no.7 1938 Oh Say, Can You Ski! Katherine Dodds Iowa State College Follow this and additional works at: http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/homemaker Part of the Home Economics Commons Recommended Citation Dodds, Katherine (1938) "Oh Say, Can You Ski!," The Iowa Homemaker: Vol. 18 : No. 7 , Article 4. Available at: http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/homemaker/vol18/iss7/4 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Publications at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in The oI wa Homemaker by an authorized editor of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Oh Say, Can You Ski! ET'S go skiing! You may say you powder will protect you from the tem L don't know what goes on for a ski by Katherine Dodds perature and exposure. Lipstick gives party, so we'll work from the bot protection against burned lips. tom up, dressing attractively and ap There is much controversy over what Now, because you aren't sure about propriately and then we'll learn the is the best jacket. It should break the your knowledge of your skiing ability, correct technique. wind and be light in weight to avoid be you feel all dressed up with no place to Skis should be rubbed with ski wax ing cumbrous. If it makes you too warm go. Get into some shorts and a shirt to prevent weather damage. They after a short time it can't be on the first and take off your shoes. You are going should be as high as the middle of your list. Leather has been marked down on to practice the same way that the palm when your arm is stretched above this point for skiing. Tweeds, poplins, European skiers do who practice long your head. gabardine, closely woven worsteds, any- before there is any snow. Regular ski boots are most Keep your feet flat on the desirable. They are stiff to floor, one foot slightly for provide sufficient support ward. Lock your knees, and should be fitted over spring to a squatting posi two pairs of socks. After tion with your weight for you have gone skiing you ward on the balls of your want to keep your boots feet so that your knees will in good condition. When be well ahead of your toes. they are still wet, grease You are now in a ski run them with leather oil. Oc ning position. casionally use natural shoe For a high speed running polish. This will act as a position, which you will water repellent and will worry about later, the knees close the pores. are slightly apart, the feet Two pairs of socks are are still flat on the ground. sufficient. The outer ones You lower yourself still will be of unscoured wool, ahead of your toes. heavy and retaining the You will feel quite clumsy natural oils. The under sock when you try to stem. is short and of a soft wool. Stemming is the art of slow Try long underwear. Yes, ing down. Spread your legs just plain old-fashioned far apart, point your toes long underwear. Garment in, then flex your knees manufacturers have caught elastically until they bend the cry for the outmoded low in front of the toes. undergarment and have Keep your shoulders re made capital of pink and laxed and have the feeling blue, as well as vermillion you are going to sit down. red and the usual white The stembogen, which is underwear. And it isn't the the graceful left-to-right scratchy kind in which turning of the descender, is grandpa used to suffer. If a variation of the stem. In this doesn't appeal, wear the same position as the those soft knit one-piece stem, keep one leg straight, pajamas. They are not as not stiff, and bend the other closely knit as the under knee forward and low. wear, however, and will call Come to a stem position and for warmer outer clothing. repeat with alternating legs. There is a growing trend toward nar thing hard surfaced that is light weight, The christie is the abrupt stop at the row pant legs, in the style of the Olym are excellent choices. Sail cloth and end of the ski run. While it is the most pic racing skaters. Plus-fours are blow gabardine suits with wind breaker lin skillful of ski antics when done well, in ing below the knees. Some clever wo ings are ideal for warmth, wind resis pantomime it seems hopeless. Since it men have added spats, copying French tance and appearance. is done at a good speed, the end result soldiers. Others have used plain heavy There are the short coat, the button is much more satisfactory than the mere woolen socks. Ski enthusiasts still like over windbreaker and the slip-over bodily actions would indicate. the ski pants with the fullness billowing jacket. Sweat shirts have been glorified. Keep your feet parallel; lock your from the ankle webbing. Pants which The jacket should be chosen with care knees; the balls of the feet carry the are part of a suit are always favorable because it is probably the reason you are weight. Swing gracefully from the but women aren't finding matched en often bundled up and still hot and cold. shoulders into a low crouch to the right; sembles essential. They choose a light Let the men laugh at your funny dress at the same time tum your head, here, a dark there, with varying hats. But they'll admire you for your shoulders, hands and knees to the left. textures. sensible sports bonnets. Parka-like or Now you are stopped at the bottom Peasant sweaters, cashmeres, wor baby-like, headgear ties under the chin. of the hill you might take a few sugges steds, will all look gay when you pull Reversible jersey and knitted hoods tions home with you. After removing off your outer jacket. Heaviness of the peak up top and bow below. Fur hats those snow-logged ski boots and that sweater doesnt' count when you are with a Russian air return. frozen snow suit a hot epsom salts skiing. It's the closeness of the knit, So you won't lose your college com bath will help any aching muscles. for often there is wind to buck. A plexion, use a complexion cream. Rub And soft moccasins will be comforting flannel shirt may take the sweater's it to a sheen not a shine. If it is quite after the sturdy leather prisons of the place. cold or you are going to be out long, afternoon. The Iowa Homemaker 3 .

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