BAD TASTE BATHING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 2, 3 January 1931, Page 4 (Supplement)

BAD TASTE BATHING.

That many of the more outre costumes go home after each bathing session as dry as when they arrived on the beach ■ is apparent in many instances (says a Sydney writer). At the week-end one special group of three girls wore long earrings of brilliant rubber beads among the rinklets of their "semi-shingle," and their cartwheel hats were of straw and cretonne. Two wore brilliant, wraps over their scanty bathers, and one was attired in a dashing suit of Lido pyjamas. None of the party was seen even to wet a toe. A Melbourne girl recently returned from Honolulu disported herself in absolutely backless pale green bathers, the back of her torso from the shoulders to just below ths normal waistline beincr of a pale browa colour. She and one other girt are enjoying the distinction of being the two most advanced bathers at Portsea. Certainly they are not lacking in courage, for criticism is unspared The trousered girl,- whether she wears fantastic _ pyjamas slashed with colour or embroidered with dragons and other fearsome reptiles, or the ordinary flannels such as men wear, walks abroad at Portsea this summer with remarkon % C °sl!les BC TT type is re P eat ed on all sides. However, oil Sunday, December 29, a good many comments were passed on the appearance of the two petite young things wh<*e sex it would have been difficult to determine but for the crops of curls. They wore W cream flannel trousers, dark royal blue flannel blazers, ordinary white qilL- cVr f and tie,, „ 4 whlte the American Navy. f