Beach Attire

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 91, 11 January 1935, Page 11

Beach Attire

- Sir,—Some of your correspondents have burst into controversy of the decency or otherwise of bathing costumes. There are always the chosen few who consider themselves exclusive, and of course, look down on our youthful bathers, and will have none of them.JJn the Mediterranean, for instance at Nice, one can watch people dressing and undressing in the open, “apparently unnoticed by other bathers.” “Visitor” and others of your correspondents, and permit me to include Lady Baden-Powell (who is shocked at the backless costumes), would look in horror, but to the worldly this is a healthy-minded state of things. If a man or woman strips in public on sttch occasions without anyone even bothering to turn a head to look, it argues complete eradication of that morbid sex curiosity which is the curse of ‘ wowser - ridden communities. One finds the same healthy spirit in many of the North Queensland beaches, where the possession or lack of clout or calieo doesn t matter a tinker’s malediction to anyone: in fact, outside New Zealand watering places few care what Sissie and Arty wear or don’t wear. "Wellington, January 10.