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Not So Itsy Bitsy

10 Examples of Beachwear and Bathing Suits From the 19th and early 20th centuries

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July 13th, 2018
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Footnotes Cover photo: Bill Norton, the bathing beach “cop”, using a tape measure to determine the distance between a woman’s knee and the bottom of her bathing suit on a beach in Washington, D.C., 1922.

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