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472 ARABIAA÷O BEJTE HONG KONG, THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1930.
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On the topic of Sham Morality of his body to the general gaze; stupid convention is yielding to at the Seaside Dr. Alfred C. this foolish and stuffy belief is pressure. This acason many men Jordan, of the Men's Dress Reform Party, writes to a London paper as follows, expressing his contempt for convention in regard to men's sports attire:
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utterly exploded! For my part, I am convinced that this sort of concealment actually produces, by creating mystery, the reverse effect to that desired. Remember the days when men used to strive to catch a glimpse of a hidden ankle, and girl who felirtatious" had but to protrude a tiny shoe from beneath her skirt to bring about a regular tumult in the breast of every male within sight of it!
comfort and
have taken to tennis shorts, with great benefit to efficiency. Cambridge, especially, has taken to shorts very kindly. 3
A number of first class players now wear shorts. The late Colonel H. G. Mayes was one of the first; Mr. J. B. Morris is another of the pioneers, and Messrs. Bromo Hill- yard and Crawshay Williams have played ad exhibition game, wearing shorts, which has been filmed.
To see this film is to be convin- ced. Trousers are utterly ridiculous for modern tennis. In a year or around the coast of England and two we shall smile indulgently when we look back on the pictures of the Wales have been asked to state whether the present regulations tennis champions of 1830, just as now we are filled with amused pity- allow me to bathe," and to sun- bathe, e ing only slips."when confronted with an old picture Twentynine esorts pormit "alips"; of Miss May Sutton, the champion,
still talston regulation" eos in her long skirting
loose and, seanty; it was thrown aside in a moment for their games; they were gymnasts (naked
The time has come to end this un folk) in the literal sense. They knew the health value of sunshine healthy sham morality of the town upon the naked "skin, and they rec-councillors. All the seaside resorts koned a bronzed skin a sign of a strong constitution-one capable of passing testa of endurance. They were right, but it has taken us Felose on two thousand years to
prove it scientifically.
Mixed Bathing.
tumes.
Brighton has set a glowing ex- ample, there one might almost be on the Continent!
atter of the regula he the open-air bath
and around London chind the times; not
Mixed bathing in the Serpentine has begun, and though not an im portant event in itself, yet it is full of significance, for it is an official recognition of the need of In this Lownsfolk for all the sunshine they tion can get. Even now it is not too ing, pee only. The butts for 100 resterary stricted; the best hours of the day only are auch costumés de rigueur, are closed to bathers. However, but bathers are not even permitted the present regulations are admitted to expose their chests and backs to be tentative, and Mr. George for sun bathing, I and my fellow Lansbury is to be trusted to revise reformers regard the regulation coa them as soon as the real needs of tume as a clinging, and chilling the people are known.
monstrosity, and any man who has worn one on a breezy day will agree that the description is not over-
Swimming is a good exercise; one of the best, since every group of muscles is exercised; the chest ex- panded; the lungs thoroughly acrat- ed. But apart from swimming, there is the healthy exhilaration of the sun and the cooling breezes the skin the naked skia. This reaches its apex in the pure air of the seaside; but not everyone can enjoy this luxury, and we others must make the, best of the town ́air, impure and smoke-polluted as it still is.
*upon
drawn.
Trousers and Tennis,
Tennis attire, too, is emerging far too slowly from the mid-Victorian influence. When tennis was little more than pat-ball, played in the garden, men wore collar and tie, and, though they might remove the coat, they dared not show their It was years before men found courage to lay bare their fore- arms and their Adam's apples!
I
* Golfers' Stupidity. Consider another popular game- gol-and see what costume man hus evolved for it. An American cham- pion took to breeches of an ex-; aggerated bagginess, and from that beginning has arisen a fashion a stupid that I have not, the patiense to write about it again (having ex- pressed my views fairly freely in more than one place). That, bow ever, shall not prevent me from giving the views of ethers.
The Rev. Geikis Cobb finished a letter to me on "Dress Reform " with the exhortation "And for goodness' sake, anathematise plus- foura!"*
Mr. H. J. Dion Byngham is an- other kindred soul.
"Plus-fours," he writes, "should be barred for every occasion whatio- ever. They are the ugliest, stufiest,, silliest, baggiest bifurcations ever invented. But for them we might have had shorts much sooner. "They have side-tracked the whole popular impulse towards dress reform. They should be utterly abolished! For workaway life-even within the Meanwhile tennis has become one sacred severity of the City-there A mid-Victorian convention de- of the most strenuous of games; is no sane reason why the shirt- clares it to be "improper" for a and still men are afraid to show and-shorts habit should not be es man to expose any appreciable part their knees. However, even that tablished."
Brighton Leads."
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Diary of Coming Events.
To-day. (July 31)
Queca's Theatre: "Night Ride." World Theatre Eternal Love." Star Theatre: "Ebakedown," Central Theatre: Canary Mur der Caso.*
Majestic Theatre: Faces.
Forgotten
Band Concert, H.K. Cricket Club,
"At Home," 5.30 p.m.
Meeting of the Legislative Coun cil, 2.30 p.m.
World Theatre: Red Hot Speed."
Lawn Bowlset Div.0.0.0.. v. Taikoo RC, KO.C. 1. C.8.0.0., Kowloon Dock R.O. . Police R.C., 2nd Star Theatre: Shakedown."
Kowlood B.G.0. v. Rooreio. Central Theatre: "Canary Mur Div. Taikoo R.C., doc, C.8.0.C.. K.C.C., Recreio r. Kow- der Case."
loon B.G.C., Royal H.K.Y.C.. Majestic Theatre: Forgotten Electric R.C. Faces."
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