#mixedbathing

[kilaracomedy]

Work hard, play hard‼️‼️ Spent last weekend with a bunch of international friends in #shirahamabeach 🏝 We were Fijian, American, Canadian, German, Slovenian,Philipino,Kiwi, and UNICORNS🦄🦄🦄🌟🌟🌟🌟 It was so precious exchanging different background with drinking, cooking, and beach volleyballing❣️❣️ It looked those grownups enjoying a weekend 100times of Japanese kids sitting at prep schools..😅😂😂😂💝💝 And I took a hike around #Shimoda in the end and experienced #mixedbathing at #senninburo #千人風呂　for the first time.. honestly it was awkward.lol But super amazing #Onsen for sure‼️‼️ Shimoda was one of the first port opened for American in 19c. There was a museum showing some records about American written by Japanese back then.. I saw our American dudes playing , drinking, and having fun whole time during the trip. That was more truth for me🤪 Thank you all for great time🦘🦘🐓🐓🥒🍺🏝🥃🦀🤖🎃🎃❣️❣️🦄 #よく働きよく遊べ #workhardplayhard #weekend #fun #tbt #travel #friends #izu #international #wearetheworld #globe #nature #bbq #party (at Villa Shirahama) https://www.instagram.com/p/CG6n8mDg4EY/?igshid=1bbsj76h9ycat

[victoriamartinezwriter]

While researching a recent article about "mixed bathing" in the early 1900s, I came across an article from 1920 that made me both cringe and laugh. I couldn't use it in the article, so I'm sharing an excerpt of it here. Definitely a "you've come a long way, baby" read. “The short-haired woman has the decided advantage in sea bathing. She need not wear those appalling rubber caps which are hideous enough to justify divorce on the spot. And, by the way, it is surprising to notice how few women show to advantage when bathing. An English magistrate has just been advocating separate bathing beaches for men and women at seaside resorts. He does not seem to be an uplifter or a purist. He bases his demand on public policy. Broken engagements, he says, and therefore a lowered marriage rate result from mixed bathing. Women do not show to advantage when they are in the water or after they leave it. A wet woman is usually uncharming to the eye. She is unattractive when covered by an adequate bathing dress. She is apt to be still more uncharming if the bathing dress is inadequate, as it usually is.” -excerpt from an article in "The Argonaut" (San Francisco, Calif.) July 10, 1920. Image credit: "Bathing Beach, 1920," (public domain) courtesy U.S. Library of Congress (http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2016828042/) The article I wrote about mixed bathing, "The Swedish beach that was the Ibiza of the early 1900s" (subscriber content), can be found at https://www.thelocal.se/20190307/the-swedish-beach-that-was-the-ibiza-of-the-early-1900s #womenshistorymonth #womenshistory #writeaboutwomen #swimsuits #mixedbathing #1920sfashion #1920s https://www.instagram.com/victoriamartinezwriter/p/Bu30rb9AiVq/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1wwq23td6ti6l