BATHING COSTUMES

Hokitika Guardian, 7 November 1932, Page 3

BATHING COSTUMES

1 THE CORRECT’ I !STYLE,

BACKLESS BARRED,

. ' f V.. October ; i4l;^*| 5 The return.- of, summer Has ■ rnto, prominence /again, - ';,perepnial | Question pf.-f“correct”.’, bathing-. coS-tinpe,,. apd .'Sydney >s much £ ,^^at^9 1 ,a|bpnt > ii fust now. The point;.on there, ‘b. moet difference of cpimpp-. is the. “hapless” costume, and p!:is ; has been absolutely banned at Gronulla,- Manly officially sanctioned the. shackles'’’’, cos , iume, but beyond that- it will, leave : tk>vj question of wbat may, or maybppi j Worn by surfers po the health iinspScHPiri.-. .'Bondi a.nd 'Coog'e ’ are .-,,i;incline4 ; .to; leave the matter of ( ;ccwtpm.e,.control to the : beach ir •pectOrs v , ; qiud; ‘sd, Aboth l eacfoes the ‘ffiq'qkfess”! .oPstpuje,. •£, accepted,, so long ft® } ,ijt n kept, ip ,pos>" s ■tipn - shoulder straps -But when the. beach inspectors,ht, theses two popular resorts—both .'very experienced . men—w' -r-c ashed to define,'an bathing costume, they doulA, only, vaguely that “it must' bo ; something., -over the odds.” ■ .* BAN ON, WHITE COSTUMES. .y { Happily • they, have, no...trouble ■so far.; "but at C%e e white ‘costumies • are ibarred, because.- they nbecafhe phapone, nptlb say,,, h-h^. wet.i Of course, the tropile, is t,hact.„ i many people, when -tl}.By.Vknow' they 'at? being subject - to ; restrictions »rcI likely-'to. goi as far* as'they. can—a? the E €^og-ei?,-hcgqh.' injp , 'said tHe. otater I’dav “if ••you, give the'pi an, inch,of skin f .foAywtefto vfch e tfrytf rjfhwre, is nettop, r lng-' indscorpiii*. MHbou.t oos-''-tume 'or 'ths cotidujh .# .°u| ■'Jtr%s- T l B - X\ ■.< '■:% . i«< V"

lii'c'i den tally* Mr?. ^ ho ; c *l?perpned our . gjrls-’-'a't ’.ifaft fifty's.,'- m 9^ fc >£}}s -both in e-s"tumc :and vjn 4 f . cretbms,” our swimmers compare more than favtihrab'y Cwith tU°s© jug-t abroad. Of turnes. which, as the in-. | igpectbr has 'said, ar e - fiure;, to,cause trouble-^-‘-‘to kerip on'*th.'e-< bpdy ,sm*d keep off the beach”—those; do awy in-the '.judgment of j I. '‘buckle's’’!.’•bathing dress, &4*e. e .ptW .ate Crohnlla;' ''’.where s 'tnbo'o. - /•*&.-«-'•• -j. “HFO.LT 1 " 1 OL T NTC” TURNEW AWAY. The other day b»e -secretary of a “Natural Htedih-' GUiii^^ppl ie d :k’ov. e to hold a “camp’.’ at Croriulla at' 1 Christmas-, ■ hut ihlaV loc.aß.- hnthoriti-'S suepecte'd ’that the: "health .oltnjA sinsttelritfe*' “nudists,’! and-| application -at oncete The •Apc l £§t a .. l ’y “given public assurance that..,’'her .-.’society ‘ha*’nothing "to- d© '.witk«»u4i?9b. .even tV suggestion lißS^the,.share picion pf‘ rifl'di.sm w©.uM^3lp:.to^ o£t ”-; 'Crhntilia during the pia'ke ari'-^iitipTession.. ijUAn/S ' 1 The ,pfedple. :; her 6 / a re, 1 ! Evidently.' net-.-j-tiik .about .;ihe.’-“nudktri-'arhze,* •• -ma.d thtre’iternnsutO’ bevgeoddrsasont for.vtltfJJ’jj . pntic ; tj^ ,, Th -Fi’ance ahd aAipe r jca,/v ln ita.% I ';arid;,'Austria! ft.ndya.ll the y.>gr©9sj European bathing resorts strenuous of-, forts' h'r&iheipg, .made.,,, . to. b*th : -bg'“ nttife a,i\d ’.tq; ,d. ; v'ok-,ilj;e. > -! en "j croacbmgnts of iV nudisnw Jn.. jjGripany, -j ' especially.;. -i>t is, forbidden to .promenade ■or-enter .restaurairtgv in bathing..suits,; and a* ; '.®Bauvilte and ptj»er^'#rpifch : j ‘watering places, .where .'“nuchst ©n*.| thusiasts have gone so' tO| appear in. public'"wit'h costumes painted -oivtheir bodies—“only , that,, and , nothing Tnote’Vsfcrong ' taken ;to ..combat av.liat.-.D.r, :Bi'y]4,- the Prussian Dictator, calls‘‘‘the.ethical de ". basement” of, bathing,,. Wp • certfiply don’t- want trouble of that kind in,Sydney , ■ ,iroh“- , .,.i

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