Swimsuits Collection (page 2)

Durban, South Africa - a Paradise for Bathers
Durban (Port Natal), South Africa, packed with holiday-makers, enjoying both the beach itself and an open-air swimming pool. 1928

Two lady bathers in Marshall & Snelgrove swimsuits, one holding an parasol and pointing out to sea. The lady seated on the beach is wearing a wool-back satin bathing suit; the lady on the right has a

1930s beach wear
1930s woman wearing one piece swimming costume, ribbon tied around the head and white shoes

Children in swimwear 1909
Five children at various ages, posing for the camera in St Malo in France. 1909

The Sea Hath Pearls by Claude Shepperson
Bathing scene showing women in brightly coloured swimming costumes getting ready for a dip in the sea. Date: 1918

Three young women bathing in the sea, Southwold, Suffolk
Three young women bathing in the sea at Southwold, Suffolk. They are N Cattley, Lucy Auerbach and M Cattley. Date: 1911

Sea-suits for sunning and swimming 1930
Women models relaxing with the latest beach pyjamas, (left model), Distinctly nautical air, and is made of sponge cloth and cotton in natural colours with wavy stripes, from Army and Navy Stores

John Smedley knitted swimsuits
Advertisement for John Smedley knitted swimwear. Good quality but no doubt rather itchy after a dip. 1938

Max Dearly with bathing costume winners, French Riviera
Famous French actor Max Dearly, together with his wife, pictured judging a bathing costume competition at Cap d Antibes in 1928. Date: 1928

Ye Goddesses and Little Fishes by Jack Greenall
Wonderfully colourful and graphic depiction of typical modern girls of the 1920s sunbathing in technicolour swimsuits by a pool. Date: 1929

Women bathers 1913
Women enjoying the summer days at Ostend seaside resort, wearing one piece bathing-dresses, which women were permitted to wear in public. 1913

Jantzen swimwear
Jantzen swimming costumes made from Lastex yarn, modelled by a relaxed group of bright young things. Available from Jaeger. Date: 1934

Wolsey bathing suits and beach suits advertisement, 1931
Advertisement for Wolsey bathing and beach suits made of smooth, soft wool, with an elastic, close-ribbed knit that makes them fit, in the water or out of it, just like an extra skin. Date: 1931

First Dip of the Year
Taking her first dip of the year, this young womans tight bathing costume doesn t leave much to the imagination. Date: 1914

Advert for Simpson lastex swimwear 1938
Lastex rules the waves. Two women posing with their swim-suits made from wool lastex. 1938

Swimming suit and bathing dress 1907
Swimming suit and a bathing dress for Trouville. Date: 1907

Sychronised Swimming Team - sky-larking again
Bournemouth, Dorset - female members of the Aquashow Sychronised Swimming Team - sky-larking again up a tree! Date: 1962

Sychronised Swimming Team - on Syd Brookes Car
Sychronised Swimming Team (" some of the Water-Babe s" ) - on Syd Brookes (possibly their manager?) Car, East Overcliff Drive, Bournemouth, Dorset, in front of the Chesterwood Hotel

Fun in the Sea at Blankenberge, Belgium - a Belgian coastal town with a long beach and promenade, plus a busy marina. Some very fine bathing hats on show! Date: circa 1910s

Mother and daughter in swimsuits and bathing caps sitting in the surf. Date: circa 1920s

Beach scene, men playing leapfrog, women watching
Beach scene, with men playing leapfrog and women watching. Date: 1902

Fashionable bathing dress 1912
A distinctive bathing dress, in navy-blue bunting decorated with white braid and turkish towelling coat. 1912

Three girls sitting in the surf at Hastings, Kent on a hot summer day. Date: circa 1920s

Swimwear for the sea and sun 1933
Models wearing three different style woollen swimsuits by Jantzen. Date: 1933

Knitted swimming costume, c. 1935
Woman wearing a knitted swimming costume in an intarsia pattern, 1930s. c.1935

Swimming pool at a holiday camp, Paignton, Devon
Holidaymakers at a swimming pool in a holiday camp at Paignton, Devon, with chalets in the background. Date: 1950s

Forma woollen swim suits 1933
Models wearing backless one-piece bathing wear with a stripe theme. 1933

Advert for Debenham & Freebody swimming suits 1933
Advertisement for Debenham and Freebody and their smart swimming suit fashions for 1933. Models posed wearing belted one-piece costumes (left) Ribbed light top in bright colours and dark shorts

Pretty bathing dress in alpaca 1906
Woman wearing a black swim dress with embroidered applications in white. Date: 1906

Dazzle style fashion on the beach, 1919
Dazzle fashion, inspired by the dazzle camouflage pioneered by the British Navy during the First World War, seen in evidence on a beach in 1919, complete with matching parasol and head scarves

Five children on a breakwater at the seaside
Five children sitting on a breakwater at the seaside. Date: circa 1920s

Girl and boy paddling at the seaside. Date: circa 1920s

Young woman in swimsuit at the seaside
Young woman in a swimsuit and bathing cap at the seaside. Date: circa 1920s

Girl and boy sitting on rocks at the seaside
Girl and boy in swimsuits, sitting on rocks at the seaside. Date: circa 1920s

Advert for McMallum colour dyes 1937
Choose swimsuits bearing the sundip label, knitwear which carries the McMallum Dyed label, safe in the knowledge that they are not only the finest quailty and style

Advert for Debenham & Freebody bathing wear 1937
Pure wool low cut leg swimwear for women, with rope tie around the waist. 1937

Poster design, Passing Show, extra summer number, showing three women in swimsuits diving from a boat, and a man rowing

Seaside limousine by W H Robinson
Ingenious traveling bathing hut, for the women that wants to wade in the sea. 1919

Bystander Summer Number front cover, 1919
Front cover of The Bystander magazines summer number for July 1919, featuring a back view of a couple in their bathing costumes, embracing as they gaze out to sea. Date: 1919

H. L. Oakley and friends at Scarborough, July 1914
A jolly group, with arms linked on the beach at Scarborough, in the month before the declaration of World War One. Fifth from left is Harry Lawrence Oakley, the famous silhouette artist

Advert for Martin-White swimsuits 1936
Swim and tan in the only watersuit with the built-in Kestos brassiere. Invisible and unsuspected to all but the wearer, the Kestos brassiere gives uplift, support and beauty to feminine curves

Advert for J. Roussel swim suits for men & women 1936
Youthful lines come naturally with swim suits by J. Roussel in airollasta the new weave in pure wool and elastic. Date: 1936

Three children paddling in the sea
Three children in stripy swimsuits, paddling in the sea

Four women in swimsuits, sitting on rocks with a beach ball floating on a pool of water

Advert for J. Roussel swim suits for women 1936
You must look slim and shapely in a swim suit by J. Roussel. In airollasta, a weave of pure elastic wool. 1936

Advert for Daniel Neal childrens holiday wear 1938
Varied ideas for girls and boys for summer clothing, sunsuits, swimwear and shorts for boys with elastic belt, available at Portman Square, london. 1938

Sweet Little man making his case to bathing beauties
Sweet Little man making his case to three bathing beauties: " I may not be much to look at, Girls, but I m Reliable." Date: circa 1925

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