Tag: margate

Margate by Warburg, 1900s

John Cimon Warburg :: 'Margate Sands', ca. 1910, autochrome. | src V&A South Kensington
John Cimon Warburg :: ‘Margate Sands’, ca. 1910, autochrome. | src V&A South Kensington
John Cimon Warburg :: 'Margate Sands', ca. 1910, autochrome. | src V&A South Kensington
John Cimon Warburg :: ‘Margate Sands’, ca. 1910, autochrome. | src V&A South Kensington
John Cimon Warburg :: 'Child Bathing, Margate', ca. 1909, autochrome. | src V&A Museum
John Cimon Warburg :: ‘Child Bathing, Margate’, ca. 1909, autochrome. | src V&A Museum
John Cimon Warburg :: Margate, ca. 1909, autochrome. | src V&A Museum
John Cimon Warburg :: Margate, ca. 1909, autochrome. | src V&A South Kensington
John Cimon Warburg :: 'Cloud and Cliff', ca. 1909, autochrome. | src V&A Museum
John Cimon Warburg :: ‘Cloud and Cliff’, ca. 1909, autochrome. | src V&A Museum
John Cimon Warburg :: 'The Last Digger', ca. 1909, autochrome. | src V&A Museum
John Cimon Warburg :: ‘The Last Digger’, ca. 1909, autochrome. | src V&A Museum
John Cimon Warburg :: 'The Last Digger', ca. 1909, autochrome. | src V&A Museum
John Cimon Warburg :: ‘The Last Digger’, ca. 1909, autochrome. | src V&A Museum

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