Risque Bathing Suits

[amandainvermont]

I found these photos in the blog - "History by Zim". The first is 1922 near Chicago - Two bathers are escorted off the beach by a police woman for breaking a law banning "abbreviated bathing suits." If you look in the background there are others being rounded up - it must have been some kind of daring "sit in."

The original caption on the second photo reads: "Bathing beauties being arrested for defying a Chicago edict banning abbreviated bathing suits on beaches."

The shame!

 

[retro ruth]

Goodness me!

 

[poppysvintageclothing]

That is a riot!!! Thanks for sharing!

 

[Jonathan]

I never know whether to trust those 'news' images. So many times they hired a couple of showgirls and alerted the press before the cops arrived, so the whole thing was set up. Funnily enough, the only arrest made for wearing a monokini in public also happened in Chicago. In that case it was a wannabe actress who wore it expecting to get arrested for the publicity.

 

[amandainvermont]

I hadn't thought of that Jonathan. Certainly is possible.

 

[cmpollack]

That second picture is a hoot!

Interesting that they're wearing socks of some kind with their bathing suits...

 

[The Vintage Merchant]

That second picture is a hoot!

thanks for sharing, Amanda!

 

[foofoogal]

Hilarious for sure. I am sure it was all very scandalous and talked about for months and months.

 

[Nicola-Ann]

What a fabulous post! It is a shame that some of the "suits" women walk out in today are not deemed unseemly enough for the same treatment...!

 

[onceoza]

We've come a long way baby!