Fashion in the U.S.A.

"Years later when we moved to Queens, Abba took me to the city pool in Flushing Meadow Park. All his friends gave him a hard time, saying it was shameless what people wore there."

at first it was weird, to me, that Abba's friend thought that people were shameless because of what they wore at a public pool. What you wear isn't what makes you shameless, it what you do and how you do it. Then it stuck, their culture is so different from ours. Of course somebody from a different country would find what people wear apaleing. Especially when you come from a place where women are supposed to cover their hair or faces. I was wondering, do his friends not go to the public pool. Or do his friends go to the pool and just be disgusted?