Pilings, 1930′s / via
Tag: bathing suit
Vivian Maier with Emilie Haugmard, undated. Credit Vivian Maier / Collection of Stephen Bulger Gallery / via ohwiewunderbar
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Chili Williams, born Marian Sorenson, wearing a polka-dot bikini appeared in Life magazine, 1943. Over the next few months she received more than 350,000 fan letters. She quickly became one of the soldiers favorite pin-up girls and was nicknamed ‘The Polka-Dot Girl’. / image and text source: Grapefruit Moon on eBay
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Le voilier pneumatique, Toulon, 1949 / src: atelier doisneau
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While the trend has barely changed, little details show the differences in taste. The swimsuits were a lot more modest than the ‘barely there’ styles of today’s fashions. These 1950′s bathing beauties prepare for action at the Margate Lido – they seem to be partaking in some form of dressing-up game, the exact details, rules and outcome sadly long lost. (Photo: Mary Evans Picture Library) / src: The Mirror
Bathing machines
Beautifully elaborate bathing machines from a series of lantern slides entitled, Bygones. The bathing machines are clearly Victorian, but the swimwear worn by the women sunning themselves on their ledges suggest the photograph was taken some time later, around the 1920s. (Photo: Boswell Collection, Bexley Heritage Trust / Mary Evans Picture Library) | src The Mirror
Health and safety? That’s a new thing. Three thoroughly modern girls in their swimming costumes go for a human pyramid while riding on Wilfred and Squeak, two donkeys, on the beach at Ramsgate, Kent in the 1920’s. (Photo: Mary Evans Picture Library) / src: The Mirror
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