LE FIGARO.
- When did the first swimsuits appear?
Audrey MILLET.
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In the 19th century, in the form of long-sleeved shirts and woolen trousers, which obviously hamper movement in the water.
But he takes on another status with Annette Kellerman, Australian vaudeville star, who owes her fame to her acrobatic dives in a fitted swimsuit, a combination that reveals arms and legs.
In 1907, she was arrested in Boston for "indecency" and her trial, which would set a precedent, would popularize this bathing suit.
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It is also the advent of the leisure society, families invest the seaside and the fashion for tanning imposes itself in the years 1910-2020.
But the coast is more than just a fashion laboratory: it promotes individual freedoms.
The body emerges from its invisibilization.
Locked up, hidden, covered, reduced to silence for centuries, it...
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