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Article: Learning Channel dives into bathing suit history.
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- The Boston Herald
- Article date:
- July 5, 1997
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On a hot summer day in 1909, a young Australian swimmer named Annette Kellerman visited a local Boston beach. She caught a lot more than a little sun - she caught worldwide attention after being arrested for wearing a then-shocking, one-piece bathing suit that authorities labeled an offense to public morality.
But Kellerman, one of the first great women's swimming champions, got the last laugh. Her bold fashion statement inspired a revolutionary change from the petticoats, corsets, stockings, shoes, gloves, parasols and hats that women in the 19th century wore to the beach.
"Not only in matters of swimming but in all forms of activity," Kellerman later ...