PARIS SHOCKED
AT INDECENT FASHIONS. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, May 4. Even Paris was shocked when a score of picked mannequins displayed the 1932 bathing costumes in an openair parade on the Place Vendome, in the centre of Paris. The suits were of two pieces, but the bodice was so slender and the trunks so abbreviated that fashion critics opined that any / Judy caught wearing them in a bathV room would either blush or scream. A. crowd quickly gathered, forcing the (mannequins to retreat. The authorities intimated that such open-air displays must not be repeated. mu mu mm . . rtf —»
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 May 1932, Page 5
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