BOYS' CLOTHING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 194, 17 August 1936, Page 6

BOYS' CLOTHING.

As a visitor to your city and country, I have been greatly impressed with its beauty and development. Especially have I noticed the healthy, happy and well-dressed children who seem to abound, and I was certainly amused at the letter in your paper regarding boys' clothing. It is not a subject worth arguing about, but in my country, where central heating is the general thing, and some parents ai;e inclined during cool weather to "dress their children to the eyebrows," as the saying is, they are no whit healthier, and in many cases living in overheated homes and attending overheated schools do not present as sturdy, ruddy-complexioned appearance as the very sensibly dressed New Zealand schoolboy. Moreover) may I ask your correspondent why if it is not healthy do many children's sanatoriums in England, pi nad a and America dress their inmates in shorts and singlets, permitting the sun and air to obtain contact with as 'much of the body as possible? And why should the case of smallpox he mentions be attributed to the lad's school uniform whei. ftiany children who are well muffled in clothes the same sickness, occasionally with similar results? After all, he is only' one against many medical men —whom we must credit with possessing some knowledge—who advocate sensible but not overmuch boys' clothing, such as the New Zealand schoolboy wears. ' G.SAMUEL.