Showing posts with label 1920's bathing suit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1920's bathing suit. Show all posts

Thursday, 1 August 2013

30's swimming in colour (with a little bit of late 20's thrown in for good measure)

1930's bathing suit at the Metropolitan Museum New York

via Velvet & Linen blog

1928 bathing suit via fuzzylizzie.com/swimsuits -
- on this website you will also find a great article on vintage swimwear



1929 bathing suit via fuzzylizzie.com/swimsuits - I love this one!!!


1932 wool swimsuit with adjustable ties via  fuzzylizzie.com/swimsuits


1936 swimsuit made of a lastex/wool mix for a better fit via  fuzzylizzie.com/swimsuits





Jantzen suit


1936 bathing suits at the Metropolitan Museum NY

 
red wool bathing suit by B. Altman & Co., 1932. via yeoldefashion tumblr




1933 bathing suit, via retroknittingcompany



via Sonne nach Wunsch flickr


And below, a pattern you can actually knit via A Stitch in Time vol 1.
This one comes with the perfect body too :)

Saturday, 27 July 2013

Call of the stripe

via Marilyn Wojdak on pinterest

 

Marlene Dietrich on the beach via the knittingneedleandthedamagedone.blogspot.co.uk 
- this woman had "cool" running through her veins

1929 bathing suits via Marilyn Wojdak pinterest

 1928 Deauville fashions via glamoursplash blog

 
Dorothy Sebastian, via Doctor Macro

via Cynyia Valente pinterest

don't know about you, but when it comes to bathing suits, 
ultimately all I want is a simple one like this

 A young Myrna Loy via imfeelingbeachy. tumblr - so, so lovely!


Anita Page via valentinovamp tumblr - how glamorous is this ??

1930's stripe swimsuit at the Metropolitan Museum New York


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This blog entry is an ode to the stripe.
 No other pattern conveys summer and seaside better than the modest, ubiquitous stripe, then and now.
Here is to the stripe! Until we meet again.


via Marilyn Wojdak on pinterest


Wednesday, 24 July 2013

1920's beach babe


Santa Monica 1920's via losangelespast tumblr

1920's bathing beauty via ozfan22.flickr.com

 
Marie Prevost  for Photoplay, 1921, via the loudestvoice.tumblr

Viola Dana in The Beauty Prize, 1924, via valentinovamp.tumblr


...seen that checkered bathing suit before?...


a fresh Joan Crawford in the 1920's via bogarted.tumblr

1928 beachwear, via maudelynn tumblr

Carole Lombard, 1928, via maudelynn tumblr

moving slightly into the next decade, Miss Florida 1930, Margaret Ekdahl, via historyful.tumblr

the very gorgeous Thelma Parr, photographed by George Cannons

 
1930's bathing, via drama of exile tumblr

and the badest beach bum of them all, via tobycreek etsy