Photo Dating Women's Bathing Suits

Did my great-grandmothers, or my great-grand-aunts, wear a bathing suit like this in the 1890s?

How about my grandmothers and great-aunts in the 1910s:

How about my mother, and my aunts, in the 1940s:

I ran across a video on YouTube titled "Evolution of the Bikini," and in order to help my fellow researchers date their family photographs, I offer this only for family history purposes to my colleagues and friends:




I wonder if this is going to be the most popular post of the week?  :)  I couldn't resist trying to help my fellow family historians.

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