Beach Attire
Beach clothes in the 1950s were something else. This was long after the two-piece bikini had already become popular, but even something as modest as this, at least by today’s standards, was generally seen as inappropriate. You can tell by the judgmental stares from the women behind the model in this photograph.
Do you want to know what’s weird? Before the 1950s, there would actually be bikini police (we made that term up) on beaches that would measure how high above the knee women’s beach clothes were. If they showed too much skin, the woman would go straight to beach jail or something.