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Equipment & Gear
Rob Desantis
Beginning Synchro Swimmer
Topic Author
11 posts since
Mar 19, 2010
Mar 21, 2010
The girl is demonstrating a technique to break a hold by the boy swimmer in lifesaving
At my swimming club we have old pictures from the 1940s and 1950s and the boy swimmers wore suits like that one, Those would be awful to race in and the girls suit is really primitive with the old fashioned cap. The guys suit would be awful to dry out and to do synchro in. The suit wouldl be like swimming with a rash top on al the time. Different times and different ideas of what a bathing suit had to be guys and girls.
Very interesting in this old book the girl is the lifeguard rescuing the boy.
#1 response to:Old Fashioned Bathing suits
Styles change and better now because they are easier to swim in than these old swim suits.
Andrea N
Pro/Elite Synchro Swimmer
34 posts since
Nov 08, 2009
#2 In response to:Old Fashioned Bathing suits
Mar 22, 2010
Whoa that is crazy! I guess everyone was in the same, uncomfortable, draggy boat though.
That lifeguarding technique looks pretty intense too!
Have any more of those drawings?
Samantha Richard
15 posts since
Jan 10, 2010
#3 response to:Old Fashioned Bathing suits
Mar 25, 2010
requesting for more pictures, please..
#4 In response to:Old Fashioned Bathing suits
Apr 05, 2010
The lifeguard picture is from a book my mom made me and my sisters read when we were learning to swim. It is called How to Swim and the argument is that girls and women are better suited for most swimming - synchro, distance, technical strokes The only area where male swimmers excel is in short speed events. My mom is 53 and she still does some synchro lessons and she does open water swims. In her last swim she and 3 women were the only swimmers to finish. Four boy amd men swimmers had to give up due to cold water.
Tammy Vee
3 posts since
Jun 28, 2010
#5 response to:Old Fashioned Bathing suits
She looks like she had a leotard type of suit. We did a show wear we swam in a leotard. It was hard as it sucked in the water and was so heavy to swim with.The boy's suit looks like one of the new racing suits that guys where that cover their whole body.
Intermediate Synchro Swimmer
4 posts since
Aug 09, 2010
#6 In response to:Old Fashioned Bathing suits
Aug 10, 2010
1 post since
Nov 26, 2010
#7 response to:Old Fashioned Bathing suits
keep forgeting my password - here some more old style swimsuits that boys and men wore
I'm a fashion student so I find the changes very interesting. Boys and mens suits were wool and were sometimes 1 pc and sometimes 2 pcs
Until the 30s and 40s the stuff we had to wear was so much like what female side swam in.
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