Smock-free zone?
Sir,—In the interests of overseas visitors and the public. I suggest that an improvement could be made to Cathedral Square and to the various lawns between it and the River Avon. Places of rest, reflection, and social intercourse, they are essentially enclosed by Colombo, Hereford, and Armagh streets, and bounded by the River Avon. Within these boundaries I propose that a “smock-free zone” be instituted. Smocks, nose-crink-ling flotsam among fine examples of Gothic architecture, blandly, but unavoidably sickening the Victorian vistas to be had for the camera or the eye, seem a strange thing to be allowed
in a city centre. The nonexistent aesthetics of texture, colour, and style serve to clash with every object of credibility that remains in the city. They seem to be yet another encroachment of the plastic sophistication that experts in efficiency see as equally dear to other people as to themselves. — Yours, etc., C. W. MACDONALD, T. D. POFF. November 28, 1979.
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