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Explore Mack Sennett's Bathing Beauties' 244 photos on Flickr!

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Photographers captured a variety of scenes, from young women riding donkeys to hotel guests doing calisthenics.

Silent film era had spawned a lot of actresses not only talented but also beautiful. A small collection of 23 American beauties from between the 1910s and 1920s will tell you more. Alice Joyce Clara Bow Colleen Moore Corinne Griffith Doris Kenyon Ethel Teare Gloria Swanson Hope Hampton Janet Gaynor Joan Crawford Jobyna Ralston Julia Faye Leila Hyams and Myrna Loy Marguerite Clark Mary Fuller Mary Miles Minter Nancy Carroll Natalie Moorehead Norma Shearer Norma Talmadge Shirley Mason Theda Bara Virginia Pearson

French photographer Gustave Gain (1876-1945) was born in Cherbourg, France on June 27, 1876. As a chemist he keens on photography and related technical achievements. After the invention of the Autochrome by the Lumière brothers, Gustave is actively engaged in color photograph. Gustave Gain loves beach. In the summer, he spent much time with his family on the coast of the English Channel in Brittany and Normandy, where he took a lot of stunning shots of his wife, Adeline and other women.

During the Russo-Japanese War (1904–05), the Japanese government sent postcards of beautiful Japanese women, bijin ehagaki (美人絵葉書), to soldiers to motivate them. Publishers continued to print them well into the 1920s.

The 1920s was marked by the strong breakthrough of fashion, especially for women, and bathing suits were also among them. There were swimsuits made of wool, and they also became shorter. These made women easier to swim, but also showed off more of their curves. There were objections, and even the beach polices who patrolled the area with measuring tape in hand to measure the distance between the bottom of a woman's bathing suit and her knee. But briefly, this era was beginning days to bring the boom of fashion onwards. Here below is a collection of colorized vintage photos that shows young girls in their swimsuits during the 1920s.

This postcard set shows images of glamorous girls from between the 1910s and 1920s.