Value of Gaudy Pyjamas
The famous Parisian dressmakor, M. Paul Poiret, has enlivened the drab existence of tho inmates of a French mental hospital by providing them with multi-coloured pyjamas. His action was not tho result of a freakish fancy. He supplied tho gay apparel at the request of Dr. Toulouse, a leading French alienist.
Tho doctor, impressed by the fact that mental deficients are prone tb neurasthenia, decided that the dull surroundings of their lives in the hospital was bad for them, and began to experiment. Hence the pyjamas designed by M. Poiret, which are said to have proved so successful that tho experiment will be repeated on a larger scale.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6788, 20 February 1932, Page 10
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