I was doing research to compare old fashioned bathing costumes to the "Burkini"...when I ran across this trivia...
usually women "dipped" seperate from men, often changing in carts that entered the water and shielded them from men...often they wore long flannel dresses (or chemises) without stockings or stays. Women merely "dipped" in the sea, so didn't wear trousers or pantaloons.
Martha Washington's bathing costume for example was a one piece "chemise" type dress with lead weights on the hem so it would't baloon up.
(via Jane Austen's World)
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