28 Stunning Vintage Photos Show Bathing Beauties From Between the 1920s and 1940s

By the early 1920s women’s bathing suits were reduced to a one piece garment with a long top that covered shorts. Though matching stockings were still worn, vintage swimwear began to shrink and more and more flesh was exposed from the bottom of the trunks to the tops of the stockings. By the mid-1920s Vogue magazine was telling its readers that “the newest thing for the sea is a jersey bathing suit as near a maillot as the unwritten law will permit.”

These interesting vintage snaps show young women posed in their bathing suits from the 1920s, '30s and '40s.