Pre-1920s Wet Wool Bathing Suits

[brunettesrule]

Originally Posted by yellow_fever_01

I once read an article (no pictures) about Germany during the time around the First World War. The author was telling of a picture that he had seen of German military cadets having a swimming competition nude. The audience included the wives of the academy instructors.

I could totally see something like that for Germany, since they were in the vanguard of nudism ("free-body culture") and even the Nazis were into it.

[fitne]

A lot of changes in the 50 years from 1875 to 1927. I heard that mixed gender nudity was fairly prevalent in Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Finland way before mixed gender nudity arrived in North America.

[fitne]

The Europeans, Aussies, Kiwis were/are definitely ahead of North Americans when it comes to mixed gender nudity.

I previously mentioned the mixed gender pool that I occasionally visited when I lived in another Canadian city. I only knew about it when I mentioned to a female classmate that I was bummed that I could only swim 3 maybe 4 months a year outdoors before the weather got too cold. She said she could invite me as a guest to a place where they had an indoor pool.

It turned out that the place was owned and operated by a European couple and almost all the patrons were Polish, Russian, German, Brits, French, Spanish, Italian, Greek, etc. This place closed a few years ago. I heard the couple sold the place to a devoloper who tore down the old building and built a condo.

[fitne]

Originally Posted by yellow_fever_01

I once read an article (no pictures) about Germany during the time around the First World War. The author was telling of a picture that he had seen of German military cadets having a swimming competition nude. The audience included the wives of the academy instructors.

I once saw a movie/documentary about Israeli female soldiers. There was one brief scene showing them taking a shower.

[yellow_fever_01]

The 1916 Summer Olympics in Berlin were cancelled due to the Firs World War.

The 1920 Summer Olympics were held in Antwerp. Google image search turned up some interesting images of the women swimmers and divers, but they were all thumbnails, alas.

[fitne]

Originally Posted by yellow_fever_01

The 1916 Summer Olympics in Berlin were cancelled due to the Firs World War.

The 1920 Summer Olympics were held in Antwerp. Google image search turned up some interesting images of the women swimmers and divers, but they were all thumbnails, alas.

Stella Walsh competed as a woman in the 1932 games. Many years later she was murdered in a robbery. When they did the autopsy they found she had a small penis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis...wa_Walasiewicz

[fitne]

Originally Posted by yellow_fever_01

I once read an article (no pictures) about Germany during the time around the First World War. The author was telling of a picture that he had seen of German military cadets having a swimming competition nude. The audience included the wives of the academy instructors.

When I was in high school the boys went full monty in their swimming classes. One day our fully dressed female teacher, she was only 24, came and sat in the stands. Yes, our male genitals were on full display. Our swim classes were gender segregated.

I heard that spas in Germany are mixed gender.