CULT OF THE NUDE

Hawera Star, Volume L, 28 November 1930, Page 5

CULT OF THE NUDE

PSYCHOLOG Y OF CLOTHES. LONDON, Nov. 14. “We must honestly face the conclusion that the modern tendency is ultimately not to clothing:, but to nakedness. ’’ writes Mr. J. G-. Flugel, assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of London, in “The Psychology of Cl'othes,” which is published by the Hogarth Press. He quotes amongst others Professor Knight Dunlop, who holds that within ;i few vears, women will not wear clothes, ‘and cause little commotion m doing so. Encouraged thus, we may with greater equanimity contemplate the possibility of dress destined to be hut an episode in the history of humanity Man, and perhaps before him, woman, will go about bis business disdaining tlie sartorial. crutches whereupon he supported himself during the earlier tottering tstages of the advance of culture,” Mr. Flugdl says. He contends that modesty can interpose no reasonable obstacle to nudity, nor in the long run can economics' or hygiene. . He applauds nakedness m many cncuinstances as -a, convenience, which does not offer any serious obiection so Jong as there is <*olll e hind of sartorial lion" ness to allow us to transport, u itli reasonable ease the instruments ienuired in daily life.