Roya Geale puts on a spectacular display of flexibility and balance, similar to ‘needle scale’ poses struck by professional adagio dancers and contortionists, in which a standing front split is done, while holding the back leg overhead. Two-piece swimsuits had been introduced to Sydney in 1938, but they were not for everyone. As Pix magazine (10 September 1938) pointed out: ‘costumes designed for slim athletic types should not be worn by outsize figures’.
5 January 1941