SALT LAKE CITY — Pieces of Utah's past are stored in the basement of the Rio Grande Train Station in Salt Lake City. The Utah Divisions of History and Art have amassed a combined total of 1.8 million ...

The history of the swimsuit is really the history of the women’s movement. Early suits with bloomers and caps were made of wool even though they got heavy — and smelly — when wet. The 1920s bathing ...

Compared to our barely clad, spaghetti-strapped swimsuit styles, the bathing costumes of the 18th and 19th century seem laughably prudish. But those days, people worried that glimpsing more than a ...

Shoes with holes. A 1920s bathing suit. And an old recipe for "switchel." These are a few things you'll see at an exhibit at UNC-Chapel Hill, which shows how North Carolinians stayed cool before air ...

Mary Ellen Fonte donned a black 1920s bathing suit. Then she stepped down off the stage and faced about 150 people. “Women in the 1920s didn’t go swimming. They bathed,” said Fonte. “Their wool ...

For centuries, women have been told that they have to dress or act a certain way, unless they want to risk being labeled an "evil temptress or seducer". Frankly, it's nothing new — but that doesn't ...

No other item in Joan Renner’s beauty product collection captures the feeling of Southern California during the 1920s as well as this West Electric Beach & Motor Hair Net envelope. No other item in my ...