Beach Pyjamas an Abomination

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6627, 14 August 1931, Page 6

Beach Pyjamas an Abomination

ANGLICAN VICAR’S DENUNCIATION

CATHOLIC PRELATE DENOUNCES SUN-BATHING

United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received. Thursday, 7.0 p.m. LONDON, Aug. 13. Quoting Deuteronomy xxii, 5, which says: “A woman shall not wear that which pertaineth to a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for whosoever doeth these things is an abomination unto the Lord thy God,” Rev. F. Croyton, vicar of St. John’s, Weymouth, requested the congregation to pray for the departure of beach pyjamas. He declared that immodest apparel meant a contaminated society. The pyjama fashion was an abomination. St. John’s is only a few yards from the sands, where beach pyjamas are worn by many women visitors. The Daily Mail’s Rouen correspondent says that the Archbishop of Rouen, Monsignor Villerable, has sternly condemned sun-bathing on ■ beaches. He declares that women and girls should not wear cutaway bathing costumes and must wear wraps until they enter the water, and must not remain on the beach after bathing.