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women wear scant bathing costumes, short sleeves and bare legs to the knees, and a little bit of a skirt, but they wear big peignoires to the water's edge and plunge instantly into the water and instantly into the p's when they come out. No scampering nor lounging in bathing suits on the beach. But even if I had my suit I should not be tempted to try it. There's too much seaweed.

Some of the French women have an awfully funny way of trying to fish at low tide for something, I don't know what, with sort of butterfly nets on the end of poles. I saw one doing it the other day in a bathing suit bare legs, and bathing shoes and big straw hat. I suppose she got cold after a while for I saw her walking leisurely back after a while over the rocks in same costume only she had put on a walking jacket and gloves, was talking with a friend, and did not appear to think there was anything odd in her costume I will say however that it was not