11. The bathing costume was washed in a bucket and hung up to dry until the next customer came along. 12. It was reported that around 160, 000 people watched the bathing costume parade on the afternoon of the 16th. 13. It is named after " tank suits ", one-piece bathing costumes of the 1920s worn in tanks or swimming pools. 14. There are also some strikingly intact linen and lace lingerie articles, as well as bathing costumes for women and men. 15. The introduction of mixed bathing throughout Europe and elsewhere certainly created pressure towards bathing costumes being worn by both genders. 16. One version of the video shows nude women on the beach, but a different edition shows women in 1920s bathing costumes . 17. Flannel, however, was a common fabric for sea bathing costumes as many believed the warmer fabric was necessary in cold water. 18. The beach was a focal point of the 1907 Sydney bathing costume protests, organized to oppose proposed dress standards for beachgoers. 19. As the segregated beaches in town disappeared, bathing costumes for men became part of the commercial package, and nude bathing ceased. 20. Oasis had been following in the footsteps of their idols The Beatles, who were photographed on the beach wearing Victorian bathing costumes in 1963.
