Down under it’s warm and people can swim outdoors. Here are some images from the past who show us swimming way back when. If you would like to see more responses to this prompt, visit the links on Sepia Saturday.
Mrs. Whitehead’s Life Saving Team, 1906, Australia National Maritime Museum
Tea Time at the Pool, London, 1955
Pier Club Mom, Surfers, 1932
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Those old tyme swimming togs were really something – men’s and women’s both! 🙂
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I don’t mean to be pedantic but I think that should be Pier Club Mob, not Mom, and it appears the guys were actually at Bondi rather than Surfers. I wonder what they would have thought of Speedos?
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Wow! I can’t get over that 6 year old swimming that distance.
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It is a wonder that women didn’t drown in those old swimming dresses!
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I’ve never seen that style of men’s suits!
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