JAX CURIOSITY SHOP: OLD SWIM SUITS

(Source of picture: Florida State Archives)

This photo features some beach bunnies at Jacksonville Beach in 1930.  Do you think the playing cards are big enough?

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WHAT WOULD THEIR PARENTS HAVE THOUGHT? -- One of the young ladies in the photo was puffing away on a cigarette.  This was rather audacious behavior at the time.  

And as for their beach attire? Just a few years earlier, swimsuits like these would've brought out the long arm of the law.  A special beach patrol could have nabbed the ladies for violating local ordinances.  Of course, these bathers are shown in a photo from 1930.  The Roaring '20s had already helped change fashions, with more skin now seeing the light of day. 

Not much flesh used to be visible in Pablo Beach (Jacksonville Beach).  During the early 1900s, Pablo Beach hired a female police officer to enforce bathing attire laws among girls & women.  One strictly enforced ordinance required females to wear stockings. 

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