London Life

London Life | 1928

Bright Though Legless

Dear Sir, - I wish to convey my thanks to you for your interest in limbless girls. I consider this is another feather in the cap of your interesting weekly.

I am now 22 years of age, considered by most to be very pretty and of a fascinating nature, even though my left leg was amputated at the age of 16, as the result of a train accident.

As far as I can remember I have never regretted the loss of a limb, and I can still look on the bright side of life.

There is a great deal of fun to be obtained from life on one leg, and many a thrill for a one-legged girl who is ready to attempt a stunt which incurs a small risk to the shapely single leg.

Judging from the letters in your paper, most of your onelegged readers prefer a shoe or boot with a high heel, and I may be counted among this number. I think a high heel adds the finishing touch of daintiness to a beautiful girl, lovely of face and figure, wearing a close-fitting, knee-length skirt, and displaying to full view her one and only leg.

This would appear to have a strange fascination for the men folk also, as my boy confesses that he is intrigued by my absolute lack of self-consciousness, for I display my single leg to all and sundry without the slightest trace of tremor.

My Scotch blood is also stirred by the cost of clothing my shapely limb, for a pair of silk stockings will last twice as long, and I can get two different shoes for the price of one pair.

Hoping to hear from more of my girl friends in similar circumstances,

Yours sincerely,

Single Leg.


London Life November 10, 1928 p. 26
London Life | 1928