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Just a Dip At Twilight: 1938

A homemade swimming pool for steelworkers' children in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Photograph by Arthur Rothstein, July, 1938. View full size.

A homemade swimming pool for steelworkers' children in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Photograph by Arthur Rothstein, July, 1938. View full size.

 

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No Bikini

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

Is there anything beer can't do?

Bikini?

Look at the girl on the far right. Is that a bikini, or is it my imagination? There were no bikinis in 1938, before WWII. At least that's what I was told.

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