Shoppers Shed All For Free Clothes

Tue., Feb. 29, 2000

Shoppers trying to win a free wardrobe stripped and streaked through dozens of clothing stores across Austria on Monday.

Huddling in the buff, in temperatures slightly above freezing, dozens of men and women waited for the doors of the 40 Kleider-Bauer shops across the country to be unlocked at 9 a.m. before racing through the premises.

The first five streakers at each location to reach the cash register received a coupon for $357 in new clothes, along with a navy blue bath towel to cover up.

One young woman, clad only in her birthday suit, was spotted outside a Kleider-Bauer store on one of Vienna’s main shopping street at 7 a.m., waiting for the shop to open, the Austria Press Agency reported. By the time the doors swung open, about 70 people were crowding the sidewalk, waiting to race inside.

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