HOLIDAY GIRLS.
MINISTER SHOCKED.
"NEXT-TO-NOTHING" WEAR.
(Special.—By Air Mail.)
LONDON, September 7
Women's ncxt-to-notliing Jioliday clothes are strongly criticised by the Rev. J. D. Jones, the 72-year-old minister of Richmond Hill Congregational Church, Bournemouth. Writing in his parish magazine of a holiday he spent in Cornwall and Wales, he says he was struck by the way "in which women go about with little on in the shape of dress." He says that he knows he will be written down as a hopeless Victorian and adds; "I confess to feeling a bit slacked at seeing women go about the streets in bathing dresses or in dresses that have no backs to them. I have no doubt," he adds, "that shorts are comfortable for cycling, but these abominable things certainly do not add to female elegance. I fancy that if the girls only realised how grotesque they make themselves look they would adopt a very different mode of dress."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 229, 27 September 1935, Page 11
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