Bikini and The Bomb: A History of Swimwear - The Seamstress of
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150 years ago if you wanted to go to the beach as a woman you would be wearing several layers of cumbersome cotton or flannel just to dip your toes - thankfully things have changed a lot since then, and swimwear is much more liberating for women now than it was all that time ago. But how did we go from wearing a multi-layered swim ensemble to our modern bikinis where sometimes almost nothing is left to the imagination?
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Bikini and The Bomb: A History of Swimwear - The Seamstress of Bloomsbury
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