One-piece costume after channel swim
Annette Kellerman is credited with the invention of the one-piece bathing suit in 1909, after attempting to swim the English Channel. Sea-bathing up to the middle of the 18th century was rare, but there are records of bathing, mostly indoors, throughout history. The Greeks bathed without covering, and in the Middle Ages bathing was frowned on by the Christian Church, mostly because men and women bathed together in large | tubs: both sexes quite naked. At the end of the 19th century corsets were worn by I the fashionable lady underneath her costume. I ^
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Taupo Times, Volume 20, Issue 7, 28 January 1971, Page 7
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98One-piece costume after channel swim Taupo Times, Volume 20, Issue 7, 28 January 1971, Page 7
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