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Pirates: 1924
Submitted by Ken on Thu, 05/24/2007 - 10:26am.
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Jewell Pathe's Bathing Beauty Pirates capture Vitagraph Ships for "Captain Blood" in Balboa Beach, California, June 15, 1924. Photograph by M.F. Weaver. View full size
A little out of place!
Submitted by noelani on Sat, 09/25/2010 - 10:23pm.
The two girls dressed identically, 13th and 14th from the right, look very out of place to me. I can picture the others wearing their outfits on the beach, but not those two. They certainly couldn't have gotten far walking in sand in those heels! Those two girls look like they stepped off of a stage or movie set.
Oh, those rolled-up stockings ... Again!
Submitted by Ronzique on Mon, 11/10/2008 - 3:51pm.
I like the way some of the girls are dressed in their period- piece bathing suits. The girl at the far right side of the photo is my favorite, the way she wears her stockings like knee-socks, just like the flappers of the era. Gorgeous! I love it! What an era in history.
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