Dear Ann Landers,
am a homemaker, aged thirty, and have a good husband and three fine children. We are upper- middle-class folks who live in an upper-middle-class neighbor-hood and have upper-middle-class friends. When I'm in the house alone in the morning, after the children go off to school and my husband leaves for work, I like to do my housework with no clothes on. Yes, you read correctly-with no clothes on. I pull the shades and draw the draperies. No one can possibly see me. Last week I confided this to a friend and she said I must be off my rocker-that there is something immoral or sick, or both, about a person who would walk around the house nude. I don't know why I do it; all I know is I enjoy it. Is it bad manners? Is it immoral?-Lady Godiva

Dear Lady,
I can only guess that you enjoy doing your housework with no clothes on because you like the feeling of total freedom, as some swimmers do. Maybe you enjoy the sheer nonconformity of doing your housework in the nude. If you wish to walk around in your own home naked as a jaybird or wearing a raccoon coat, whose business is it? It may be unorthodox, but that doesn't mean it is either immoral or bad manners.