Frères Lumière:: Sur la plage. A daring photograph for its time of a woman in a see-through dress on a beach. France, 1907-1915. | src AlamyLumière Brothers :: Untitled early Autochrome of a woman in a silk dress standing on rocks. France, 1907-1915. | src liveauctioneers
George Hoyningen-Huene :: Georgia Graves, Folies-Bergère dancer, wearing a thigh-length chiffon dance dress, left arm extended behind her and holding a large translucent ball against her hip, head bowed, right arm extended, left leg raised with knee bent and foot resting on her right leg. Published in Vogue, 1928. | src Condé Nast via Getty Images