This amusing and provocative collection of early hand-tinted postcards and black-and-white photographs presents the American female bather in her colorful seaside costumes. Posed and spontaneous, sober and giddy, these early images offer a delightful ode to women at the beach. They also serve as an evocative social document of the newly liberated woman. Victorian women in their last age of innocence went to the beach heavily clad and were bystanders as men frolicked in the surf. But social mores and fashions began to change at the turn of the century. Women cast aside their cumbersome garments for scantier and sometimes risque bathing frocks, which in turn gave way to the daring swimsuit. A camera-happy nation documented these carefree women at the beach. Beach Beauties captures the best of these delightful seaside scenes.
- ISBN10 1584790628
- ISBN13 9781584790624
- Publish Date 1 May 2001
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 12 September 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Stewart, Tabori & Chang Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 80
- Language English