Vintage Bathing Suits

[Veronica Parra]

Bathing suits: COLOR photos 1938-'46

Photos taken by Charles Cushman between 1938 and 1946. Please see these links for the images:


http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/cushman/full/P02344.jpg

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/cushman/full/P03470.jpg

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cus...20&display=thumbcap&action=search&pnum=P02994

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/cushman/full/P02847.jpg

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/cushman/full/P02652.jpg

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cus...20&display=thumbcap&action=search&pnum=P02401

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cus...20&display=thumbcap&action=search&pnum=P03408

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/cushman/full/P02649.jpg

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cus...20&display=thumbcap&action=search&pnum=P02365

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/cushman/full/P02339.jpg

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/cushman/full/P02362.jpg

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/cushman/full/P02341.jpg

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cus...20&display=thumbcap&action=search&pnum=P02394

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[Veronica Parra]

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[mysterygal]

I absolutely love the swimsuits that are 5th and 6th down on the list! great pics!! It's amazing that soon it will be time for wearing them

 

[V For Vixen]

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!

Look at number 1's little sandals!!! :whistling

V
xx

 

[AtomicBlonde]

Those are wonderful pictures!! Make me wish I liked sunbathing! Those darn nordic genes of mine make the sun and I rather uncompatible! I always look nice freshly cooked lobster!

Thanks for sharing!

-Jess

 

[CWetherby]

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!

Look at number 1's little sandals!!! :whistling

V
xx

Great sandals!! Sure beats the beach flip-flops I'm wearing now. But then, that's what I wear when I'm going to the beach right after lunch today!! wooo-hooo!!!!!!!!

CW (not wearing a vintage bathing suit, but still nattily attired)

 

[maisie]

A pair of sandles, like in picture 1, were on ebay a few weeks back, but unfortunatly (as always!!:rage: ) they were a tiny size!!

 

[mysterygal]

Those are wonderful pictures!! Make me wish I liked sunbathing! Those darn nordic genes of mine make the sun and I rather uncompatible! I always look nice freshly cooked lobster!

Thanks for sharing!

-Jess

Just stock up on the sunscreen! actually, I gotta do that pretty soon myself, the other day, I was out gardening and got a nice little sunburn ....my skins the same way, it goes right past getting tanned to burned, while my brother, who spends only 30 minutes outside, comes back in with a golden deep tan :rage:

 

[AtomicBlonde]

Just stock up on the sunscreen! actually, I gotta do that pretty soon myself, the other day, I was out gardening and got a nice little sunburn ....my skins the same way, it goes right past getting tanned to burned, while my brother, who spends only 30 minutes outside, comes back in with a golden deep tan :rage:

My sister too. Doesnt that just burn you up?! (pun intended lol )
Oh well, I'd rather be a snow bunny than a beach bunny!

-Jess

 

[Tin Pan Sally]

Wow, Veronica, you've been busy. Thanks for posting all the pictures on various posts!

 

[mysterygal]

Jess, and another good thing about not being a beach bunny is that our skin will thank us for it when we get older!

 

[Lauren]

Very nice! Those put to death certain assumptions people usually make about the time period, which is why photographs are so helpful!

1 )Not all women were pale- being tan was quite fashionable!

2) Not all women were thin

3) Not all women knew how to dress for their figure

4) Not all women wore mass amounts of makeup and heels while wearing bathing suits.

They were just as real as you and me

 

[maisie]

1 )Not all women were pale- being tan was quite fashionable!

2) Not all women were thin

3) Not all women knew how to dress for their figure

5) Not all women wore mass amounts of makeup and heels while wearing bathing suits.

What happened to number 4??

 

[maisie]

2) Not all women were thin

I agree with that!!!
I recently aquired, a quite nice I must say, late 30's cotton day day, with a 48" waist!!!!!
I mean you can't say that the only clothing you can get from the 40's are 24" waists!

 

[Lena_Horne]

I love browsing Cushman's collection and I especially love when I see that others have discovered the magic. Some of those pictures are just begging to have a story told about them.

L_H

 

[Lauren]

Oops! fixed

 

[Veronica Parra]

As for fantasies of women in bathing suits:

 

[Lauren]

Isn't it sweet of Jantzen to throw in the hourglass figure and the sex appeal with the suit?

 

[Veronica Parra]

And what's with the dog and the pipe in its mouth?

 

[Lauren]

Yeah, and the girl in the red two piece ain't going to look so how when those three guys tackle her in the water.