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Asked why she had acted in this way the defendant said she did so entirely for health reasons. She did not belong to a nudist club but had pracised nudism ever since she could remember.

"I do not know why that should make any difference," said the magistrate. "There is not very much difference between nudism and the latest bathing costumes. Why do you not wear a bathing costume?"

—"Evening Post", 1939.