BEACH PYJAMAS.
| j VICAR REBUKES WOMAN, j FASHION DESCRIBED AS AN j ABOMINATION. (VSITBK IP.EdS ASSOCIATION —XUSCTUIC ' TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.) (Received August 13th, 7 j I LONDON, August 13. Quoting Deuteronomy, chapter xxix., verso o, tho Rev. f'' Croyton, vicar of St. John's C'hu, ;i. Weymouth, requested the congregation to pray for tho departure beach pyjamas. He declared that immodest apparel meant a contaminated society. The pyjama fashion was an abomination. St. John's Church is only a few yards from the sands where beach pyjamas are worn by many women visitors. [The Scriptural quotation is: "Tho woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a inan, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment; for all that do so aro abomination unto tho Lord ihy God."] SUN-BATHING CONDEMNED. (Received August 13th, 7 p.m.) j LONDON, August 13. | The Rouen correspondent of the "Daily Mail" says that the Archbishop of Rouen, Monsignor Villerable, sternly condemned sun-uathing on tho beaches. Women and girls, he said, should not wear cutaway bathing costumes pnd must wear wraps until j they enter the water and not r.Minxm j on the boach after bathing. I
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20315, 14 August 1931, Page 11
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