Beach Wear
Sir, —I am glad to see that the matter of beach dress is being taken up by abler pens than mine, but 1 will add a few lines on the subject. I think it is a real shame that respectable people cannot enjoy the sunshine and sea air on the beaches without being annoyed and one’s sense of modesty offended by the sight of naked bodies everywhere. It really amounts to that, both male and female; in fact, I think the latter the most barefaced. It is hard for one to believe one is among Christians and not savages. If anything, tlie latter are the more modest. What children must think of their parents in this state I do not know or what influence they will have on their future. I am as fond of a dip as any man, but I feel quite comfortable in the shoulder to knee garment, and no exhibition afterward.
People seem to have no sense of shame nowadays. Even on the Sabbath at Oriental Bay one cannot enjoy the shade under the trees grown for that purpose without seeing crowds of both sexes coming right across the public road with little more than a small loin-cloth. —I am, etc., A VISITOR TO WELLINGTON. Wellington, January 4.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 86, 5 January 1935, Page 13
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214Beach Wear Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 86, 5 January 1935, Page 13
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