SHOP WINDOW DISPLAYS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22057, 13 September 1933, Page 8

SHOP WINDOW DISPLAYS

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —In answer to the letters on “ Shop Window Displays ” in your paper, permit me to ask “ Disgusted ” to see a visitor’s point of view. I assumed that there must be a window display out of the ordinary in either art or vulgarity. No vulgar display was apparent, but a meet artistic one drew my attention. Similar models and garments _ are constantly being displayed to-day in all the main cities of New Zealand, America, the Continent, and England. To see apything vulgar in this display would require a vulgar mind, and 1 feel sure Disgusted ” has not travelled. Otherwise the wonderful art in ancient and modern paintings and sculpture displayed, not only in public galleries, but in public squares and city halls iu all countries, would have developed either an appreciation of the artistic or a broadness of mind. Should these artists or the City Fathers who permitted these works to be publicly displayed be prosecuted?—l am, etc., September 12. R- Tist. TO THE EDITOR. g IB _I beg to differ from the opinions of “ Disgusted ” -and company with regard to shop window displays. As a disinterested pedestrian, and one by no means broadminded. I cannot see why exception should be taken to certain drapery shop displays. The average persons take no particular notice of these displays, and if they do they do not talk about it, but take them as a matter of course. Those people who do discuss them are really corrupting the minds of the young, at the same time showing their own small-mindedness. Fashions are always changing, and people take such displays ns a matter of course, thinking nothing of them; but if such people as Disgusted" continue to complain, the young mind will at once sit up and take notice and seek evil from something which, in reality ig quite healthy to the minds of all. —I am, etc., M.Y.0.8. TO THE EDITOR. SIR, —Your shocking footnote to the letters on the above subject is but an indication of the terrible moral laxity that exists all around us. In this sink of iniquity we see all kinds of degeneration. Females in bathing suits are common sights on all onr beaches and our Art Gallery ig full of pictures of women without any clothes on. It has even been found necessary in one of onr churches, which is used as a picture theatre during the week, to drape the statue of a woman on Sundays. We thank Heaven that there are some pure people amongst u&—some who have the moral decency to point out indecency to people who were ignorant of its presence; who dress anything but well under our outer garments lest we be a temptation unto others. For these and all onr other good points we are thankful. To the pure, Sir, all things are impure.—l am, etc.. F. U. and S. C. M.