"Up-to-Date Bathing Requisites"
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By: Butterick Publishing Company
Date: 1900
Source: Butterick Publishing Company. "Up-to-Date Bathing Requisites." The Delineator, May 1900, 727–728.
About the Author: The Butterick Publishing Company was founded by Ebeneezer Butterick as a means of marketing the paper garment patterns he had begun producing in 1863. He introduced the company's first fashion magazine, Ladies Quarterly of Broadway Fashions, in 1867, and The Delineator in 1873. The latter continued in production until 1937, rapidly moving beyond a pattern marketing device to providing instruction, advice, advertisements, and, of course, paper patterns to order.
Introduction
It required most of a century, from the early 1800s, before swimming became an acceptable diversion and exercise for women. During much of that time, women, men, and children increasingly...
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