Though I posted something very similar before, I can't let my series exploring the fashions of 100 years ago go by without at least one post depicting the beach fashions of 1922.
The Delineator describes the tops of these two-piece bathing costumes as "blouses" and the bottoms as "knickers". Suggested materials included wool jersey, gingham, taffeta, crȇpe de Chine, satin and foulard. In other words, these garments don't seem intended to be worn by serious swimmers (especially when you consider that the figure second from the left is wearing ruffles, and the model wearing gingham has pockets in her costume!) Swimwear would steadily become more streamlined and spare through the 1920s and into the 1930s, but would remain impractical by modern standards until the invention of waterproof and elasticised synthetic materials.
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