Evolution Of The Bathing Suit

11. The 1920s

Women then started wearing form-fitting suits, with shorter skirts and no sleeves. The suits were considered very attractive and freeing.

Then women’s bathing suits were reduced to a one-piece garment with a long top that covered shorts. Although matching stockings were still worn, vintage swimwear started to shrink and more and more flesh was displayed from the bottom of the trunks to the tops of the stockings. By the mid-1920s, Vogue magazine was telling its readers that “the newest thing for the sea is a jersey bathing suit as near a maillot as the unwritten law will permit.”