Giddy bathers in the yard
By: usermattw
Tags: photography, swimwear, vintage photography
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What it is:
Photo measuring 4.25 x 2.5 inches.
What I know about it:
Nothing! Undated and unidentified.
Comments:
Silly me for letting a cold spell make me think our Indian summer had passed. Nope, it’s here right on schedule, a week of heat in mid-October that we here in San Francisco affectionately call “earthquake weather”. (Indeed, the big Loma Prieta quake happened 23 years ago this week. I would try to commemorate that, but I think the only natural disaster photo in my collection is one showing a building flattened by a hurricane, not a quake.) So in honor of these beautiful days, I’ll post another warm-weather photo before I have to start posting pictures of people in the snow. (Not that it snows in San Francisco, of course. And not that I couldn’t justify more swimsuit pictures by saying they’re in honor of my readers in the Southern Hemisphere. Like I ever really need to justify swimsuit pictures.) This photo is completely battered, but it still makes me smile.
Pics of Then 
Love the knee socks with a swimming suit!
Yes, those amused me, too. I wondered if they might be in the process of getting dressed or undressed, so we were seeing a combination of bathing clothes and street clothes.
Are you sure those are bathing suits? They could be uniforms for a girls sports team. I believe I have seen one before, I’ll check through my photos.
Good question. I’m never sure about much of anything anymore. LOL The one in the back right seems to have a skirt attached, which reminded me of vintage bathing suits, plus a towel. That only two have socks, only one has a skirt, and only one has a towel, suggested to me that they were either changing in or changing out of their outfits, but I could be wrong. And they could be in some sort of exercise or sporting outfits, too. I’ll be interested to hear what you find.
Well, you were correct, they are bathing suits! The socks really threw me off. This site shows pictures of the changes in swimwear and quite a few of them wore socks with their suits.
http://fuzzylizzie.com/vintagebathingimages.html
Thanks for the link! What a lot of fun pictures. You’re not alone in being confused by the socks, since they confused me, too.
I like that they seem to be laughing and having a fun time together. Friends.
I agree. It’s one of the things I like most about it, too.
Wish is was still warm here. You are lucky 🙂
Well, Charlie, having lived in places like Ohio and Pennsylvania, I now miss the change of seasons. We always want what we don’t have, right? 🙂
yes I believe you are correct 🙂 But it can be a bit of an extreme here…….if I only did not have to travel to work in the snow it would be perfect 🙂