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Woman's Striped Bathing Suit

This is a Woman's Striped Bathing Suit.

This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from Kent State University Libraries as part of The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.

It is dated 1920s. Its medium is wool knit.

The 1920s witnessed the introduction of formfitting modern bathing suits. This knitted tubular silhouette, with a scoop-necked sleeveless top sewn into a pair of trunks, was worn by men and women. Often available in bright colors, this casual design was known as the "California-style" suit.

It is credited Lent by Kent State University, Gift of Martha McCaskey Selhorst Collection, KSUM 1996.58.550.

An iconic gelatin silver print (photograph) in black and white published in 1930 in the Paris edition of Vogue magazine. Slightly left of center, two people, one man and one woman sit on a diving board overlooking the expansive horizons of the sea meeting the sky situated below center. The woman is closer to the viewer and her face is hidden because she is looking at the view. She has short dark hair that ends at the top of her neck and blows in the wind. Her torso faces left and she is sitting on the side of the left hip and thigh with her right thigh on top both facing the viewer. Her left arm is supporting her posture. She is wearing a swimsuit that is in the style of a tank top with short shorts. The sun is left of center evidenced by the reflection on the female. The female overlaps the lower portion of the male’s body. The male is closer to the water and he has short dark hair that is not moving in the wind. We cannot see the model’s face but we can see a ¼ view of it. We see the male’s torso and muscular right arm as he is facing right. The sun is also reflected off his body left of center. The composition of the photograph appears to be a work of art.

Object ID #907214077
gelatin silver print.
Lent by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Museum purchase funded by the....
52.2016.8

Drawing, Design for a Spot for The New Yorker

Drawing, Design for a Spot for The New Yorker
brush and black ink, white gouache on cream paper.
1960-214-38

Textile, Pebble Beach
linen.
Gift of Henry C. and Eleanor Kluck.
1985-84-15

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Drawing, Beach Balls, Textile Design
brush and gouache, graphite on paper, lined.
Gift of Donald Cameron.
1992-51-5

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2oaHPB/
Accession Number 70.2016.1
Object ID 907216373