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Swimsuit season is here

This sweet ad is from a newspaper called The Daily Graphic. It’s June 1879, time to try on the latest full-body wool bathing suits at Lord & Taylor’s, then on Broadway and 20th Street. At some point between then and now, Lord & Taylor dropped the ‘s from their name.

 

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3 Responses to “Swimsuit season is here”

  1. april Says:
    March 17, 2013 at 7:48 am | Reply

    Who’d drown first: us wearing their getups or them seeing what we wear (or don’t wear) at the beach?

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    June 13, 2016 at 8:38 am | Reply

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