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04-12-2007, 10:30 AM | #1 |
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April 12, 2007: Bathing girl revue 1922
What an awesome idea: Shorpy is a blog that features photos that are about 100 years old. This particular entry is not quite 100, but it's fun nonetheless: swimsuit models of 1922. Amongst other things, notice how only about 1 in 10 is smiling, and notice how footwear, headgear, and umbrellas are part of the mandatory costume. But are they sexy? Not a chance, this is a whole 'nother culture. |
04-12-2007, 12:06 PM | #2 |
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Some of them are pretty sexy. Namely in the back row (from right): 2, 4, -8 and front row (from left): 7, 16, 17, 28.
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04-12-2007, 12:17 PM | #3 |
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true. 28 in the front row is not bad at all. She's actually smiling.
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04-12-2007, 12:20 PM | #4 |
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"Welcome and thanks for playing "Spot Your Grandma When She Was A Slut".
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04-12-2007, 02:41 PM | #5 |
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She had big cans before big cans were cool.
She's also smiling, not wearing headgear, and has her head tilted a little... downright modern of her! She knew what sexy was before anybody else! The whole thing makes me think: there was a time when smiling for a photograph was not the convention. Just like putting your hand out with a fake gang sign. There was a time when that was not the convention. |
04-12-2007, 04:01 PM | #6 | |
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And while you straight men are sitting there admiring the attributes of these ladies, remember this was taken before ladies felt they had to shave. Beneath those bathing suits, it's a jungle down there. lol!!!
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04-12-2007, 09:59 PM | #7 |
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Wait, there was a time when big cans weren't cool? When was this?
Absolutely--my paternal grandfather, who died in 1950, was remembered by many in the family as very funny and jovial. But you wouldn't know it to look at his photos; he's scowling like mad. |
04-12-2007, 09:31 PM | #8 | |
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What is with all of the ropes or chains on the woman at the bottom left with the dog? That's an outfit you might see today - at a bondage convention.
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04-16-2007, 01:42 PM | #9 |
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04-12-2007, 12:56 PM | #10 |
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Dammit Sheldon, how did you know that was Grandma Dallas??? (4th from the left, front row)
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04-12-2007, 01:56 PM | #11 | |
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04-12-2007, 02:14 PM | #12 | |
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I didn't know they had a "panorama" setting on the cameras of that era.
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04-12-2007, 02:45 PM | #13 |
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Good lord, I'm glad you mentioned that--I missed half the pic!
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04-12-2007, 06:00 PM | #14 | |
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04-16-2007, 11:45 AM | #15 | |
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When I was at school in the '80s it was still common to have school photographs taken in this way. I'm not sure about the exact method used, but it was certainly possible for someone to appear more than once in the photograph. We had a montage style poster at my school because we had a better art department, but the slightly more staid boys school that some of my friends attended still had the formal rows of faces. The school discouraged running round the back to appear twice with a set penalty of a weeks suspension (which also applied to anyone assisting them). Funnily enough, it had the opposite effect and at least one boy a year attempted it.
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