The Evolution of Bathing Suits in Women’s Fashion

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minimal body coverage hi welcome to
watchmojo.com I’m your host Ashley and
today’s cynthia cooper is going to take
us through the changes of the ultimate
limits of revealing bathing suits are
very important in the history of fashion
because they are a garment in which one
is rest but not really close one is
wearing enough clothing to be seen in
public but not something that would be
socially acceptable in any other context
but on the beach so it really shows us
the limits of what society is willing to
tolerate in terms of exposure of the
body in the late 19th century in the
early 20th women wore dresses for
bathing with knee length pants
underneath them they even wore tights
and boots for going in the water and
taking those off to wade just up to the
knees was maybe the first or one of the
first moves towards exposing more of the
body in bathing suits by the 1920s
bathing suits were made out of wool
myths which would have been really
clinging when they were wet and of
course the whole idea of what if bathing
suits could be changed in the late 1940s
with the introduction of the bikini this
green bathing suit is a style that was
recommended by the Catholic women’s
league in 1935 when it seemed as if
morals had really declined and women
were getting away with a whole lot on
the beach so this Catholic women’s
league introduced its own modest bathing
suit style
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