Figure 1.--Here we see a French family at an unidentified beach in 1911. The children are not wearing swimsuits, but rather regular clothing seen suitable for beachwear. Note the changing huts in the background. |
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We continue to see children wearing broad-brimmed sailot hats. The hats were sometimes turning up the brims during the 1910s. We notice many other caps, including floppy berets, flat caps, amd miitary-styled caps. Boys usually wore their middy blouses with bloomer-type knickers without shoes and stockings. These were not swim suits, but rather sailor suits wirn to the beach. Girls might also have sailor styled outfits, but we all note white dresses. Children were more klikrly to paddel in the surg and ply in the sand then actually swim. We no longer see girls wearing long stockings in the 1910s. For more serious wading they might roll up their knicker legs. Relatively few boy, however, did this. There seem to be a lot more boys in the available images than girls, I'm not sure why this is.
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