swimming fashions of the past

billowy vintage swimwear inspiration

[beatnikdaddio]

Keeping cool, New York, 1943.

[isabelcostasixties]

Summer fun with the Supremes and the Rip Chords in 1964

[fifties-sixties-everyday-life]

Circa 1940s

[electronicsquid]

Why not everyone likes yo-yos

(Robert W. Kelley. 1961)

[illyadarling]

[fifties-sixties-everyday-life]

A day at the lake, 1950s.

[electronicsquid]

Is it beach weather yet?

(Bernard Hoffman. 1937)

[electronicsquid]

Robert McCulloch’s house

(Loomis Dean. 1956?)

[vivatvintage]

[theswinginsixties]

Beach outfits to sew, Teenagers’ Weekly, 1962.

[curiousvintage-blog]

[theyroaredvintage]

1948

[vivianhartleys-blog]

Brigitte Bardot, 1953

[back-then]

On the shore

[boudoirepoque]

Dancing by the lake, Wannsee/Berlin, 1920s

[lottereinigerforever]

Jane Greer, “Across the Board”, 1946. Photo by  Bernard of Hollywood

[fifties-sixties-everyday-life]

[fifties-sixties-everyday-life]

August 20, 1941 (stamped on back)

[back-then]

Theatre Royal chorus, Tamarama Beach Sydney, Australia c. 1938

Photo: Sam Hood http://ift.tt/2oU0rRp