“GOT OVER ALL THAT”

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 89, 9 January 1935, Page 10

“GOT OVER ALL THAT”

Australian Beach Fashions Cause Litle Comment

“VERY ADVANCED” STYLES

“Beach fashions are very advanced in Sydney and only slightly less so in Melbourne,” said Mr. G. Rosenbaum, cf Wellington, when interviewed on his return from a trip to Australia. ■When lie was told that while he was away Wellington had been tlie scene of a wordy battle over tlie modesty of men’s bathing costumes, he commented with a laugh : “They have got over all that in Australia.” “Both Sydney and Melbourne are becoming very Americanised,” lie said, “and. taking into consideration the climate. I am of the opinion that the bathing costumes that I saw, and tlie methods of wearing them, are not a backward step. Shorts for men were extremely common, and so were the rolled down costumes when they were sunbathing. Of course, tbej- are all mad over sunbathing there. On the Esplanade. St. Kilda, it was not an uncommon thing to see girls walking clad in shorts and a backless tunic. These were not for swimming, but tiiey seem in those instances to have taken the place of beach pyjamas because of (heir better use for sunbathing. “While I was there no fuss was made over any of these styles, and they seem to have been accepted as perfectly all right. I did not see any of the ‘brassiere’ costumes that the Sydney authorities are said to be prohibiting. “It was surprising,” Mr. Rosenbaum concluded, “to note the number of ‘suicide blondes’ in the’ two cities. I mean girls whose hair is pale golden or a copy of Jean Harlow’s ‘platinum.’ They are called—and quite commonly —'suicide blondes’ because they have been dyed by their own hands.”