Swimsuit Scandals Throughout History


	Swimsuit Scandals Throughout History
EddieIsSteady
8-22-2009 4:42 AM
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8-22-2009 5:06 PM
lollipop10
well our navels are so indecent, i can see that they should be covered
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A historical look at the most controversial bathing attire</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.elle.com/Living/Society-Culture/Swimsuit-Scandals">When a Muslim woman was banned from a Paris pool for wearing a “burquini” last week—officials called the full-body wetsuit unhygienic—it got us thinking about beachwear brouhahas and swimsuit censorship throughout history. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.elle.com/Living/Society-Culture/Swimsuit-Scandals">1907</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.elle.com/Living/Society-Culture/Swimsuit-Scandals"><P><B></B></p> <DIV class="object-center"><DIV class="content-view-embed">
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</DIV><P>Australian swimmer Annette Kellerman, the first woman to attempt to swim the English Channel, was arrested for indecency in 1907, wearing a formfitting one-piece swimsuit on a Boston beach in 1907.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.elle.com/Living/Society-Culture/Swimsuit-Scandals">1934</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.elle.com/Living/Society-Culture/Swimsuit-Scandals"><P><B></B></p> <DIV class="object-center"><DIV class="content-view-embed">
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</DIV><P>Hollywood’s Hays Code, introduced in 1930 and more effectively enforced in 1934, prohibited movie stars from showing navels on the silver screen</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.elle.com/Living/Society-Culture/Swimsuit-Scandals">1951</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.elle.com/Living/Society-Culture/Swimsuit-Scandals"><P><B></B></p> <DIV class="object-center"><DIV class="content-view-embed">
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</DIV><P>The modern bikini (seen here on model Micheline Bernadini) caused a sensation from the time it was introduced in 1946.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.elle.com/Living/Society-Culture/Swimsuit-Scandals">1964</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.elle.com/Living/Society-Culture/Swimsuit-Scandals"><P><B></B></p> <DIV class="object-center"><DIV class="content-view-embed">
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</DIV><P>In this year, designer Rudi Gernreich created the monokini—essentially a topless one-piece—which was considered shocking and denounced by the pope as immoral.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.elle.com/Living/Society-Culture/Swimsuit-Scandals"><BR clear="all" />
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</DIV><P>The burquini—a full-coverage swimsuit introduced in 2007</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A858A20A-85F6-487F-98CE-192787336DAC/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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