It seems that the present season in London has been marked by an exuberance of youthful frivolity. A favourite form of entertainment has been "freak parties," and one of them, held during the present week, has made a considerable stir. We are told that more than two hundred of London's "Bright Young People" attended this party in the guise of babies and school children. The young women were dressed as little girls. Some of the young men wore long-clothes and bonnets, and others came as little girls, in short frocks and yellow wigs. They bowled hops, rode on rocking-horses, burst into imaginary fits of crying and were comforted by imitation nursemaids. It was, by all accounts, an extraordinarily silly affair, and many people, perhaps, would describe it as disgusting, We are not disposed, however, to find in such performances symptoms of a decadent society. All great cities contain a social element that lives to amuse itself and devotes its money, and such brains as it may possess, to devices for the defeat of boredom. This class has existed at all times.
The Irish Times, July 13th, 1929.