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Conversation Ladies Victorian Middie Bathing Costume

Paris, France
1873 LL187301

Costume
   Maury bathing dress shortsleeved middie bloomered, with shoes and hat. Possibly with hose?

Face and hands, and possibly bare ankles?

Actions
   Two ladies talk while a young girl holds onto one of them (1).

Commentary
   This Victorian bathing costume is atrributed to Maury in Paris.

Source
   Attributed to Maury, Paris, 1872; by Lawrence Langner, The Importance of Wearing Clothes, Hastings House, New York, 1959. No credit. 1 picture.
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