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June 30, 1922. Washington policeman Bill Norton measuring the distance between knee and suit at the Tidal Basin bathing beach after Col. Sherrell, Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds, issued an order that suits not be over six inches above the knee.” National Photo Co.
Comments:
- No kidding! My grandmother was arrested in the early 1900’s for showing too much leg at a beach on Lake Michigan. Great pictures…. Al . Sacramento, Ca.
- Today he’d be looking for thongs. I wonder what the next step is.
- Is that the Washington Monument in the distance? With the Smithsonian Castle over to the right? That might put this at the swimming beach where the Jefferson Memorial is now.
- You don’t have to be an Oppenheimer or Einstein to figure out the next step. GO NUDE! Then there will be nothing to measure, and nothing to look at.(In a scientific perspective, at least.)