#bathing costumes

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This image of young women at Rotorua's Blu Baths also appeared as a full-sized poster, and on a small postage sticker from the mid-1930s. The artist Leonard Cornwall Mitchell was a prolific commercial artist.

Mitchell, Leonard Cornwall 1901-1971 :Rotorua and New Zealand's thermal wonderland. [1930s]

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This was the May historical sewing challenge project

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I hope your weekend is this much fun. Ollinger Family in bathing suits on the beach, c.1899. S. Blake McNeely Collection, The Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of South Alabama.

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Glowing with good health and vivacity, this young woman seems an excellent advertisement for a holiday in Wellington. Her hair style suggests that this luggage label dates from the 1940s. The radio masts on Mount Victoria were erected in the 1920s.

Grand Hotel (Wellington, N.Z.): Grand Hotel Wellington N.Z. [Luggage label. 1940s?]    

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What do you wear?

[lowcountrydigitallibrary]

On July 5, 1946, French designer Louis Reard unveiled a daring two-piece swimsuit at the Piscine Molitor, a popular swimming pool in Paris.

Children in swimsuits with model boat.

Photograph from Phosphate, Farms, & Family: The Donner Collection held by Beaufort County Library.