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June 1931 sports events (2 C, 7 P) Pages in category "June 1931" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes ...
Woman wearing a swimsuit in a swimming pool in Hungary in 1938. Typical 1945 two-piece swimsuit worn by Gene Tierney. An important style that became popular due to the war was the two-piece swimsuit which later led to the Bikini. In 1942, the War Production Board passed a law called the L-85 which put restrictions on clothing production. [33]
June 14, 1931: More than 500 people drown in capsizing of French excursion boat Saint-Philibert in the Loire River. More than 500 people drowned in the capsizing of a French tour boat, the Saint-Philibert, when it was toppled in a gale while returning to Nantes from the Île de Noirmoutier. On departure from Nantes, the boat was carrying 467 ...
Woman wearing bikini in Chicago (1973) Evidence of bikini -style women's clothing has been found as early as 5600 BC, and the history of the bikini can be traced back to that era. Illustrations of women wearing bikini-like garments during competitive athletic events in the Roman era have been found in several locations, the most famous of which ...
100 years ago—on May 31 and June 1, 1921—the Tulsa massacre occurred on "Black Wall Street," the wealthiest Black community in the United States at the time. Black businesses that ...
Hotpants or hot pants are extremely short shorts. The term was first used by Women's Wear Daily in 1970 to describe shorts made in luxury fabrics such as velvet and satin for fashionable wear, rather than their more practical equivalents that had been worn for sports or leisure since the 1930s. Hotpants are worn above the knees around the thigh ...
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In the 1920s, as hemlines of dresses rose and central heating was not widespread, women began to wear flesh-colored stockings to cover their exposed legs. Those stockings were sheer, first made of silk or rayon (then known as "artificial silk") and after 1940 of nylon .