Beautiful historic photo

[Bede735]

I've found a website called 'Bikini Science'. which is primarily about women's swimwear fashion throughout the ages, but some parts of it include men.

Here is a photo from Italy in 1975:

http://www.bikiniscience.com/chronology/1975-1980_SS/RS7501_S/RS7501_J/RS750194F.JPG

There are 3 women at the beach wearing bikinis, but they accompanied by 2 men also wearing very brief costumes.

It's hard to imagine a scene like that nowadays; but I bet back then it wasn't even an issue.

[Bede735]

And another one from there:

http://www.bikiniscience.com/chronology/1975-1980_SS/RS7501_S/RS7501_J/RS750186R.JPG

The black suit looks like an Aussiebum 1.5 Classic!

[Byron]

Anything said also about the Cote d'Azur for that period?
(the prolific photographer at the time was I think Ferrero)

[Bede735]

I have a certain nostalgia with this, as my first overseas holiday was in Italy during the same year when I was 11. Needless to say I wore swim briefs, because then, who didn't?

[Bede735]

I feel a bit sorry for the young men of today. They're repressed but they don't realise they're repressed, because they're too young to remember what it used to be like.
If they saw old photos like this then they would know what they're missing. :)

[Bede735]

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 1987:

http://www.bikiniscience.com/locations/FL86_SS/FL8710_S/FL8710_J/FL871017.JPG

The focus is on a woman wearing a G-string, but to the left of a picture a man wears swim briefs. How un-American!

[Byron]

Why wasn't Mrs Grundy up there Louis?

[Torchwatch]

Not un-American, unrepressed.
America should be about freedom of expression.