6 APRIL 1929, Page 27

Mr. Langdon Davies surely exaggerates when he says in The

Future of Nakedness (Noel Douglas, 3s. 6d.) that no woman, however wealthy, must endanger Palm Beach by bathing in the sea with bare ankles." Certainly this is not so at Miami, a few miles down the coast, where both sexes often spend the whole day in bathing dresses ending at the knee. Mr. Davies tells us little of the really interesting physical culture movement in Germany, which has high ideals before it, and discusses instead (without saying anything new), the Roman Catholic ban on short sleeves and low necks in Church and similar matters. To us it seems perfectly reasonable to desire a certain conformity in dress on certain occasions.