article_snippet.sent: ‘not in the spirit of the ponds’, I was told by the strict Hampstead matriarchs who police ‘not in the spirit of the ponds’.
article_snippet.sent: A cover-up campaign began, much to the annoyance of Francis Kilvert, a West Country curate who, in 1872, complained about the ‘detestable custom of bathing in drawers’.
article_snippet.sent: George III loved ‘the delicious feeling of freedom in stripping in the open air and running down naked to the sea’.
article_snippet.sent: Forced to put on underwear (red and white striped) to conceal George III, George III complained that:
article_snippet.sent: If ladies don’t like to see men naked, why don’t ladies do keep away from the sight?