Show q Ii Gertrude Artlett Art ett of Philadelphia the I Y yv z r r 17 Old Year Year Swimming Champ Champion I on y I JJ Wearing Bearing a Typical icalOne Piece One P ece 7 rte Suit Such as vas the t J PC the T Piece One One Bathing Suit Has No Now at I 1 Official Endorsement and With It ii a l P Reasonable Point of View on the th k r rA v it j A r S S s jk SS x f l xV f 1 ar v r I J r J f p J v Y J l. l f r Ir co u I S Miss lass 1 Luc Lucy Burns of Chicago Whose Piece One Suit Enables Her t to Give Quite the they theE E y Impression sion of f M Mermaid l noo no Grace o If I By B Ethel Ethe Thurston r T 1 I observers will probably say ay th that t they Y saw V it coming that the piece one-piece bath- bath t g suit is one of those inevitable things be he it is is Nevertheless there to be g sensational about bout the fact that censor censor- jp ps P. P has passed it at last Supervisor or David R. R McKeith l of the Mil Mil- iw uce ice Bureau of Parks and Playgrounds says I t th the piece one suit is all nIl right i And the oft official cial custodians of Chesapeake Berth Washington D D. Cs C.'s seashore bathing re- re iett erl have e decided to lift Jilt the ban against bar bare k s and scanty piece one-piece bathing suits for women i ne held a meeting a few days daj's ago and agree agreed Ito to disregard as precedents the prohibitory o orders ris aed ed at Coney Island and Atlantic i City against costumes 1 It is silly to put the ban on bare legs one ref of the e Chesapeake Beach censors said If any my of the girls want to help in the fight against the thel l gi gh rot cost of bathing suits by wearing the more and more sensible kind of bathing cose cos- cos u e 1 own as the piece one-piece suit the police mt wont won't say DY a word Old fashioned Old conservatism may hold up its ds in despair but the thing is done Censor hu bas spoken I l Where Piece One-Piece Suits Are 0 O. 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The piece one-piece fashion began to make itself r from in America after England had reely reel Y it Think of England that thai z once frowned it the t the American notion of letting m men n and women the the ithe in the same bit of ocean doing a thing I like like- ke tl it ti Yet it has bas do done ne that The English womans woman's of independence has been one of tho st startling things that ever ever happened there it t i. i is to say it once was startling It doesn't le e any longer The piece one-piece suit is a com com- place everywhere in Britain f P So that w we e are to conclude that America is ia 1 i y Of f Course Bathing Beauties Will Still Stin R Re i Abbreviate the thc Clothes in 1 e t Hl i conservative in some som w ways ys at least The old ld Mother Hubbard American surf costume died I hard Every m modification of ir it died hard You would think that conservatism really saw the one- one piece coming Now comes Supervisor McK McKeith ith with the latest blow v Among the various duties of th the office filled fille sv b by Supervisor McKeith l is that of c controlling th the Lake ake Michigan bathing beaches l lying ing within the city city- limits The Th up upkeep of the municipal bath J t houses louses safety appliances saving life and first- first ti I Inid aid nid stations is under his control He Ile also regu regu- i. i lates the bathing houses and it is part of his business busi busi- r s f ness to see sec that the bathers of both sexes conform conform con con- 1 form to official s 's every requirement in the wn way q pf suitable and sufficient bathing costumes Ho is in other words Milwaukee's l official bathing b censor Milwaukee's J Censor Approves For sev several ral years ears it has been the rule at nt Milwaukee Milwaukee Milwaukee Mil Mil- waukee that a woman must wear not less than a two piece bathing athing costume in addition to long 0 stockings stocking nathin Bathing shoes were optional and so was the waterproof cap If she preferred to go o into the water in her stoc stocking ing feet o oc occasionally Y stubbing her toe toc and wearing out the soles of her stockings at the rate of a pair a day that of course was her own business If she wanted to get her hair soaked and then have to sit around for an hour afterwards in the sun waiting for it to dry that was her business too But it was the o official censors censor's business to s see ce i f that mat she wore long stockings completely concealing concealing concealing conceal- conceal ing her legs up to and beyond the pont point po nt where that duty devolved upon the gartered be-gartered bloomers Jn In in J T f addition to the bloomers she he was obligated to h wear a n combination overskirt and blouse which completed the costume The weight of these cumbersome garments when water soaked std aid the drag of the skirt which always interfered with the swimmers swimmer's perfect perfect per per- freedom of leg movement have been considered considered considered consid consid- ered a dangerous handicap to women when bath bath- serve erve the Right Hight to Elaborate as Well Veil as to Much They Visit the Water Vater h r r y r f f rr I 1 l i y r v r r ry F r I fir r N r r G r h t f S J t 7 4 r I pal 1 ta p It r c I y- y t f i 6 t 1 tir t- t ir 6 New Fashion Asks for forand r I and at t Least Two Jast R Received d L Official Censors si i Have Now lea More j for a as x Accept Accepted as I 00 i Satisfactory Satisfactory- Part of oj Critics Critic i. i d i I 1 if If Nv 1 t 1 I r J.- J. A ll l r ri i Nv w oft 1 G t J I 4 r 1 S 'S frd fr d I 7 i f 1 t t y oJO I f y jI f jr 1 r r g J t f A j It I Ir f. f I tc tr r s f i ia a J Y r 4 r g t r Y S c r q wi t a s i rr rrt 43 J 4 l P 1 a h r r D 1 Another Picture of Miss 1 Artlett 17 Year Old Champion ln The extra weight of clothes overtaxed overtaxed over over- taxed their strength during a n lon long swim wim and the skirt and amI bloomers were generally generally gener gener- ally tHy condemned as unnecessary impedimenta i- i menta menta mere mere survivals of more Puri Purl Purit Puritanical t days The Milwaukee bathing girl it may maybe maybe maybe be observed was not the only one who wh felt that wa way At practically every e bathing beach from one side of the United States to lo the other the bathing girl gill has hns been heard in prot protest st against pcr Pentane 1020 1920 4 s l s sf f 1 rv J I toi to ir i r l r a aI ar 0 f I r r I r nr Ae r r f 1 J 1 b t r R t Viz t i r r the clothing impositions which she she declared were ere depriving in her of a great grent deal of the pleasure pleas pleas- ure incidental to swimming swimming swimming swim swim- ming and nd also making it very dangerous dang for a beti beyond be- be girl to venture venturo out ti yond ond her depth unless s she sheI I v wS wal a very good goodS I SwimmerS swimmer S' S j S s I There is still another for the reason this year a. a general protest against compelled to wear weal 1 being so much clothing when bathing That is the higher cost of or material A two two piece bathing bathing bath bath- and combination combination a ing suit consisting of bloomers tion skirt and d blouse when added t to stockings bathing shoes and a waterproof cap was going last year whereas n a to cost twice as much as simple littler little ready-made ready piece one-piece bathing suit all ready to slip into can be purchased for a very veri moderate sum But Censor McKeith l says sas that the high cost of material had nothing to do with his decision We always have had a rule said he that women must wear two piece bathing costumes but this year we will overlook o that rule Personally Persona ly 1 would rather see sec a lady bathing in a nice artistic piece one-piece suit than burdened with a lot of useless clothes Too many garments dont don't make bathing comfortable and besides they give the woman the appearance of a drowned owned hen perhaps hen perhaps I should say chicken chicken chicken-as as she emerges from her dip While I am no authority on the styles I 1 un understand understand understand un- un that they will be unusually gaudy this year so that with our liberal interpretation of what is proper Milwaukee maidens should havno have hava havano no complaint to make 0 Got to Educate the Men It all depends upon the point of view it is a condition of the mind Our duty is to train the tho minds of a certain type of men to view a pretty form torm in a bathing suit as one might look at a 3 painting or a statue It is not the low cut and it is not the high cut of the bathing suit sui that wo we will have to re regulate The women give no trou trou- ble Ne It is the mind of the male malo bather that wo we must train Of or course one censor doesn't make a nation nation- It was tho the joke when the Queen of Belgium brashere was bras here bere that sh she found perplexity in the fact that tha bathing suits must be one way on the Atlantic coast and could bo be quite another wa way on the 4 Pacific Pacific coast The perplexity is much more intriCate intricate cate than that A bathing suit that may receive the official 0 O. O K in one quarter may be scorned a mile away The question is really e extraordinarily difficult But as the lawyers would say there is now a decision something decision something official to quote Just how somo some other judges will fall faU into line line is a matter not to be prophesied offhand Meanwhile the American girl is showing great eat cat ingenuity in dodging the eye of surviving criticism Some of the called so-called two piece suits arc are wonders of sophistry T Two o pieces yes butwell butwell but- but well weIl you would hardly know it Such dainty and artistic evasion e even the wizardry of fashion fashion fash fash- andion achieved ion has probably never before To look pretty and to be free free it it sounds like an alluring plea Plain sense will do the final regulating says say one philosopher t Old ideas have got to give way to new news ones In spite of all an the sour sour prophecies the world is growing a freer and md more decent place to live Jive in We used to be shocked at things that should not have shocked us We invented the shock We Vc insisted on being shocked b by ankles But ankles are arc not shocking any more not because they arent aren't the same ankles they always always al al- ways were but because our habits of mind are cleaner It will be the same about other prejudices Every nation has discovered that its its its' bathing bathing bath- bath ing clothes are arc not a criterion for other clothes Japanese women bathe without any clothing at nil Yet they are arc perhaps the most modest women in the world and show it in their street and home habits J- J |