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The swimsuit : fashion from poolside to catwalk
This volume documents the modern swimsuit's trajectory from men's underwear and circus/performance wear to its unique niche in world fashion. It emphasizes the relationship between fashion, media, celebrity, sport and the cultivation of the modern body. This fascinating book provides an historical, sociological and cultural context in which to view how the swimsuit - and Australia, the country that significantly influenced its modern form - migrated from the cultural and colonial periphery to the centre of international attention. In addition, the book offers new perspectives on national histories of the swimsuit and investigates how traditional European fashion centers have opened up to new markets and modes of living, bringing together influences from around the globe.
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The Swimsuit
The Swimsuit: Fashion from Poolside to Catwalk documents the modern swimsuit's trajectory from men's underwear and circus/performance wear to its unique niche in world fashion. It emphasizes the relationship between fashion, media, celebrity, sport and the cultivation of the modern body. This fascinating book provides an historical, sociological and cultural context in which to view how the swimsuit - and Australia, the country that significantly influenced its modern form - migrated from the cultural and colonial periphery to the centre of international attention. In addition, the book offers new perspectives on national histories of the swimsuit and investigates how traditional European fashion centers have opened up to new markets and modes of living, bringing together influences from around the globe. The Swimsuit is essential reading for students, scholars, and the general reader interested in fashion, popular culture, history, media, sport, and gender studies.
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In short. Episode 157, Bikini
Episode 157 – Bikini: There had been attempts to launch a two piece swim suit during the 1930s and even the ancient Romans had used them in the third century, but it was not until Louis Réard designed a version, so brief that no model would wear it, that people started to notice.
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Bikini
There had been attempts to launch a two piece swim suit during the 1930s and even the ancient Romans had used them in the third century, but it was not until Louis Reard designed a version, so brief that no model would wear it, that people started to notice.
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Beyond the Flapper: The Problem of “Snapshot” History
Time Frame One to two, fifty-minute class periods Objectives 1 Analyze how the emergence of the 'New Woman' challenged Victorian values. 2 Examine how prohibition, the Scopes trial and the rise of religious fundamentalism exemplified the clash between traditional moral values and emerging modern ideals like individual expression and personal pleasure. 3 Place these developments in the context of an emerging mass culture created by radio, movies, newspapers, and popular magazines (2). Document Based Question A. Provide sources: 1 Video a. Date to Coney Island from The Crowd (5) b. Date/party at parents' house from Grandma's Boy (6) 2 Written a. \"Into the Land of Talk\" (7) b. \"Talks on Timely Topics\" (8) 3 Image a. \"Women sitting in a car in front of the Belmont Theater\" (9) b. City official measuring bathing suit lengths (10).
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Risk Factors for Seabather's Eruption: A Prospective Cohort Study
Objective: A prospective cohort study was performed to identify risk factors for seabather's eruption. Methods: Study participants were recruited at four beaches in Palm Beach County, Florida, during three weekends of May and June 1993. Participants were interviewed by telephone after 48 hours regarding medical history, beach activities, development of rashes, and use of possible preventive measures. Results: Seabather's eruption, defined by the occurrence of a rash within two days of exposure to seawater, was reported by 114 (16%) of 735 respondents. The strongest predictor of seabather's eruption was a past history of the condition. Children less than 16 years of age were also at increased risk, as were surfers. Showering with one's bathing suit off was a useful protective measure. Conclusion: The study's findings suggest that when the seasonal risk of seabather's eruption is present, children, people with a history of seabather's eruption, and surfers are at greatest risk. During the sea lice season, seabathers can minimize their risk by showering with their bathing suits off after seabathing. Length of the time spent in water was not significantly associated with seabather's eruption.
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Bathing suits
In 1930 a \"Sun Tan Bathing Suit\" was designed for men. It had large cut out sections back and sides. The cut out back was quickly adopted by women as well. Some suits were still itchy wool; some knitted cotton suits, mainly in children's sizes, appeared. The wet cotton bagged when wet and worse, if white or light colored, wet cotton became virtually transparent! By the late 1930s the two piece bathing suit had emerged for women. Men were now discarding the top half of their suits in favor of trunks only. But many public swimming pools insisted that men's suits with tops were mandatory. Designers obliged with a swim suit with a detachable top.
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Beach Belles
James Gauker was a long way from home in 1944. An Indiana native and newlywed, the young airman found himself in Myrtle Beach practicing bombing runs over the Atlantic Ocean. The weeklong exercises distracted from the otherwise monotonous routine of army life. Gauker wrote his wife about how his crew “buzzed the beach & just about scared the people to death out there.” But flying low over bathers’ heads was not the only thrill enjoyed. He also expressed amazement at how the town easily subverted gender conventions. The soldier described his first trip into Myrtle Beach: “Last night we went to
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'Sex Freedom Girls Speak Out'. Women in Sexual Revolution
There exists a myth about the sexual revolution being a tool of domination for men against women’s struggle for independence and self-determination; that if ever it was acknowledged as pleasure, then it was only by the former at the expense of the latter. As a consequence of this myth, women as an integral part of the sexual liberation movements of the 1960s were concealed in historical studies on the subject. In most historiographies, second-wave feminism started in the early 1970s out of a criticism of — and frustration with — the so-called sexual revolution. With that, hetero/sexuality was classified as, and limited to, a predominantly male attack on the health and safety of women, leaving out women’s own agency and active desire to change the society and themselves through different and new ways of sexuality within the historical processes labelled as the sexual revolution.
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Dressing for the Tropics
In 1900, Cosmopolitan published a didactic little essay entitled “What Is a Gentleman?—A Lady?” on the importance of dressing appropriately. The four conversationalists agree that Adam—the original Adam—was a gentleman in his time despite his lack of clothing, but “ ‘we have to conform to the habits of our class, whatever that class may be. We should not be pleased if Alice had come down to dinner in a golf-skirt or tennis shoes, should we?’ ” This belief that dressing for dinner was a critical expression of both the progress of civilization and a person’s elevated status
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