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37586	Kidwell, Claudia Brush	Women's Bathing and Swimming Costume in the United States			.txt	text/plain	18573	1103	72	WOMEN'S BATHING AND SWIMMING COSTUME _Women's Bathing and Swimming Costume in the United States_ Women's bathing dress holds a unique place in the history of American bathing gown to the swimming suit may not only be dependent upon the There is little evidence of women bathing or swimming prior to the 17th He referred to women, wearing only drawers, bathing with men as a custom York fashions, a separate description of long-skirted bathing dresses many women continued to wear the old bathing dress with its belted American bathing suits retained their long sleeves until the early 1880s bathing and then swimming for women increased, the number of yards of Bathing costume did not evolve gracefully into the swim suit, nor was bathing and swimming costume. The growing numbers of women who wore the new styles of bathing dress advertised swimming suits instead of bathing dresses. Although women's bathing and swimming costume achieved an	./cache/37586.txt	./txt/37586.txt