CULT OF THE NUDE.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 428, 20 November 1930, Page 4

CULT OF THE NUDE.

PSYCHOLOGY OF CLOTHES. LONDON Nov. 14. “Wo must hoestly face the conclusion that the modern tendency is ultimately not to clothes but to nakedness,” writes Mr J. G. Flugel, assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of London in “The Psychology of Clothes,” which is published by the Hogarth Press. He quotes amongst others. Professor Knight Dunlop, who holds that within a few years, women will not wear clothes, and cause little cpmmotion by doing so. Encouraged thus, we may with greater equanimity contemplate the possibility of dress destined to he but an episode in tho history of humanity. Alan, and perhaps before him, woman, will go about his business disdaining Ihe sartorial crutches whereon ho supported himself during the earlier tottering stages of the advance to culture,” Mr Flu gel says.

He contends that modesty can interpose, no reasonable obstacle to nudity, nor in the long run can economics or hygiene.

He applauds nakedness in many circumstances as a convenience which does not offer any serious objection so long as there is some kind of sartorial harness to allow us to transport, with reasonable case, the instruments required in daily life.