PYJAMA PARADES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 27 August 1927, Page 6

PYJAMA PARADES.

ULTRA FASHIONABLE RESORT. NEWSPAPER’S SCATHING COMMENT. GY CABLE —PBESB ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT. LONDON, August 26. The ‘ ‘Daily Express’ ’ makes a scathing attack on conditions prevailing at the surfing beach at Lido, ultra fashionable seaside resort of V enice. it says: “Lido is at present an orgy of naked flesh. Adam has nothing on this ‘Careen or Eden,’ for he at least grew fig leaves. Smart society people rush there from all parts of the earth in pyjamas. As people sit round sipping tea in the hotels they wear pyjamas. They lunch in pyjamas, dine in pyjamas, and the remainder of the day lie about the sands and a few condescend' to bathe every now and again. “They take moving pictures of pyjamas on parade. Women in elaborate silk pyjamas with hows and ribbons and wearing boudoir caps, strut up and down the beach and they will walk about the hotels and streets in the. same attire. If the same women were seen in similar attire in a corridor of a London notel there would be shrieks of horror yet when they sit sun bathing they umoosen the straps in order to reveal as much to the sun as possible. “Adam would have loved this sort of thing and Eve would have put her fig leaf hack on the tree. In short, the fatter the Lido lady is the more she likes to show.’’