SKIRTLESS BATHER'S RIGHTS.

Mataura Ensign, 27 September 1913, Page 3

SKIRTLESS BATHER'S RIGHTS.

An athletic woman physician of Chicago, Dr. Rosalie Ladova, was the defendant lately in ;ui amusing police court case designed to test the rights of women swimmers to discard their skirts. The fashion which permits American women to promenade public thoroughfares in slit skirts and blouses decrees that on the bathing beaches they shall wear dresses of ampler proportions. They must be clad when in the water in a bathing blouse, boomers, skirt and stockings. , Declaring that it was impossible to swim in a skirt, Dr. Ladova disoiuxl<xl her skirt and hid it under a rock before plunging into the water of Jackson Beach, a popular lakeside resort; and though still dressed in blouse, bloomers and stockings, she was arrested for violating the police regulations. Dr. Ladova vainly argued to the magistrate that her swimming costume was more proper than the costume worn |by men bathers. "I was clad from head to foot," she declared, "while all around | me weiro men with bare hiss. It is imI possible to swim comfortably in skirts." , Released on bail provided by a prominent Suffragette leader, Dr. Ladova expressed her intention of fighting the case in the highest courts with the object of securing greater freedom for iromen swimmers in the matter of co»tame.