Women's Bathing and Swimming Costume in the United States

by Claudia Brush Kidwell

[30] Loc. cit. ([footnote 29]).

[31] Loc. cit. ([footnote 29]).

[32] Ibid., p. 68.

[33] As quoted in C. Willett and Phillis Cunnington, The History of Underclothes (London: Faber and Faber, 1951), p. 130.

[34] “Cape May,” Godey’s Lady’s Book (December 1845), vol. 31, p. 268.

[35] “Fashions for August, Bathing Dresses,” Peterson’s Magazine (August 1856), vol. 30, p. 145.

[36] “New York Fashions,” Harper’s Bazar (August 8, 1868), vol. 1, no. 41, p. 643.

[37] Ibid. (July 10, 1869), vol. 2, no. 28, p. 435.

[38] B. Brooke, “Bathing-dress with Hat and Gloves,” Hobbies (August 1958), vol. 63, p. 90.

[39] Photograph and pattern appears in Blanch Payne, History of Costume (New York: Harper & Row, 1965), pp. 518, 583-584.