26 AUGUST 1871, Page 3

The London Swimming Club has devised a new bathing-dress, which

does not appear to secure its two objects, namely, decency and freedom of motion. It secures only the second. It is a tight- ,fitting brown dress like that of an acrobat, and no impediment in the water ; but to put it on or off, one must strip. What is wanted is a dress which can be put on in the house under the clothes, and .dried without taking off, and we are not quite sure it is not an impossibility. Any tradesman who should solve the difficulty, so 'that a man might go out for a stroll, swim if, when, and where, the fancy seized him, and never be totally undressed, would, in this Paradise of the Proper, make a fortune.