
Women keep cool during a heat wave by moving a park bench into the water
in Central Park, NYC, September 1961 [Keystone Features-Getty Images]
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Women keep cool during a heat wave by moving a park bench into the water
in Central Park, NYC, September 1961 [Keystone Features-Getty Images]

Charles Sheldon :: Bathing Beauty Flapper Cools off with Fan, 1920′s
Charles Sheldon was a prolific and gifted early 1900’s American
Illustrator who specialized in “pretty woman” themed cover portraiture
and advertising in the Art Nouveau and Edwardian styles. After studying
at the Art Students League, he went to Paris to study under the
legendary Alphonse Mucha. He returned to America and set up a studio at
Carnegie Hall in New York City.
By 1921
he was contributing high fashion portraits to Woman’s Home Companion
and Theater magazine. Famous women all over the world arranged to sit
for portraits in his studio in Carnegie Hall in New York. The pastels he
created for Photoplay 1925-1930 launched his career as a portrait cover
artist. [read more] / original source: eBay
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“Washington policeman Bill Norton measuring the distance between knee and suit at the Tidal Basin bathing beach after Col. Sherrill, Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds, issued an order that suits not be over six inches above the knee.“
June 30, 1922.
National Photo Co.
/ source and hi-res: Shorpy

Katharine Hepburn falling in a Venice channel in ‘Summertime’ directed by David Lean, 1955
/ src: blogspot

Katharine Hepburn falling in a Venice channel in ‘Summertime’ directed by David Lean, 1955