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

Some Enchanted Evening

South Pacific, ohh. Mitzi Gaynor's ball gown, with its lavender gingham bias cut bodice, and white chiffon skirt wafting around the paradise garden in the moonlight is one of my all-time favourite dresses. It has stayed, magically elusive, in my memory.
This is the only picture I could find on the internet and if anybody can capture more images of it from the film, I'll make a drawing of it and send it to them! Oh do try someone, please.