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Just a Dip At Twilight: 1938
Submitted by Ken on Mon, 05/21/2007 - 9:02am.
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A homemade swimming pool for steelworkers' children in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Photograph by Arthur Rothstein, July, 1938. View full size.
No Bikini
Submitted by Norm on Mon, 06/18/2007 - 4:12am.
I don't see a bikini anywhere in the picture, left or right. The lady on the right is wearing a swimsuit whose style was quite normal for that period. Notice the lower half ends of a kind of loose skirt around the thighs.
Actual bikinis first started showing up on the French Riviera in the mid fifties. But two-piece bathing suits were already around even then.
Like making love in a canoe
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