Challenge #8 - By the Sea
"Everyone
loves a day at the beach, and the sea has inspired and influenced
fashion for millennia. This challenge is all about nautical fashions,
whether you make BC pallas and stola to wear at a Roman seaside resort
town like Pompeii, something for Cleopatra to lounge in as she barged
down the Nile (rivers count as nautical), an outfit for a Viking to keep
them warm on a longboat as they explored Newfoundland, a ship to perch
on a towering 1770s hairdo, a chemise to be worn in a Regency bathing
vehicle, mid-Victorian seaside promenade
dresses, late Victorian woolen bathers, or 1930s beach pajamas to wear
on the sands of the Cote d'Azure."
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OMG!!!!!!!! Going down memory lane... do I have to???? This is one of the BAD memories of junior high school. I was lucky enough to attend Edwin Markham Jr High in San Jose, CA. It was a very special school, it had a lot of neat features including 2 swimming pools. We either had swimming or dancing on Fridays..... And we had to wear suits just like this lovely bottle green item above, and it was in 1957-9, not 1938! Did you notice it was made of wool, yah, real flattering. The only difference in ours was that ours had a dropped waist, yah, that just added to its charm. Sooooo ugly!! Brings back just so many memories. As you got out of the pool a huge bubble would form right under the boobs and then you have to hold up the top part while the bottom (wool holds LOTS) was weighted with water...a look to die for...actually, maybe that dropped waist was from all the times the water pulled down the whole thing, the crotch was down to your knees. There must have been 15 lbs of water in there.
And then on the swim Fridays the boys would trot by from the field while we were getting out of the pool to line up. Yah, that was a lot of fun, too.
"Everyone
loves a day at the beach, and the sea has inspired and influenced
fashion for millennia. This challenge is all about nautical fashions,
whether you make BC pallas and stola to wear at a Roman seaside resort
town like Pompeii, something for Cleopatra to lounge in as she barged
down the Nile (rivers count as nautical), an outfit for a Viking to keep
them warm on a longboat as they explored Newfoundland, a ship to perch
on a towering 1770s hairdo, a chemise to be worn in a Regency bathing
vehicle, mid-Victorian seaside promenade
dresses, late Victorian woolen bathers, or 1930s beach pajamas to wear
on the sands of the Cote d'Azure."------------
Well, I am going to be skipping this one.....No plans for swimming at Ardenwood this year! for me at least!
But, as I was checking out the different nautical fashions through the years I saw this one:
And then on the swim Fridays the boys would trot by from the field while we were getting out of the pool to line up. Yah, that was a lot of fun, too.
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