Are We Under-Dressed on the Beach these days?

I've always been a one-piece bathing costume sort of a girl. Can't even bear to call it a swimsuit. Tell me this isn't a lot chicer than a series lycra triangles spliced and strung together?
Perhaps not everyone's cup of tea but fabulous textiles




Oh oh oh, Oklahoma meets my favourite dress from South Pacific



What a gorgeous collaboration between United States Rubber and the milliner




This look would definitely work today




Stunning, modest simplicity



Perhaps a bit on the complicated side and the hoods a little dodgy?



Total elegance for a game of beach rummy


From 50s Fashion Style 1 Beach & Sumer P.I.E Books 1997