| Bibliography: Bathing Costume |
| One of the hardest parts of researching historical bathing costumes is that references and information are so widely scattered. There in no single book on the subject. Here is a list of all of the books I have found containing references to bathing costume. Those marked by a *star*, I have found particularly useful. |
| -Blum, Stella Victorian Fashions and Costumes from Harper's Bazar, 1867-1898. Dover Pubns; ISBN: 0486229904; (April 1975) -Bridgeman, Harriet The Encyclopedia of Victoriana MacMillan Publishing Company; ISBN: 0025335308; (October 1975) -Cunnington, C. Willet. English Women's Clothing in the Nineteenth Century Dover Pubns; Reprint edition (May 1, 1990) -Dreiser, Theodore. The Color of a Great City, C. B. Falls (Illustrator) Syracuse Univ Pr (Trade); ISBN: 0815603363; Reprint edition (June 1996) -Eley, Geoffrey. The Ruined Maid: Modes and Manners of Victorian Women The Priory Press; ISBN: 085078008X -Funnell, Charles E. By the Beautiful Sea : The Rise and High Times of That Great American Resort, Atlantic City Rutgers University Press; ISBN: 0813509866; March 1983 -Grimble, Frances Reconstruction Era Fashions: 350 Sewing, Needlework, & Millinery Patterns 1867-1868 Lavolta Pr; (September 2001) -*Kidwell, Claudia B. Women's Bathing and Swimming Costume in the United States, Washington Smithsonian Institution Press 1968 (out of print. www.astrologos.com makes reprints on demand) -Lightfoot, Frederick S. Nineteenth Century New York in Rare Photographic Views Dover Pubns; (March 1994) -Lindsay, Irina. Dressing and Undressing for the Seaside I. Henry; ISBN: 086025867X; -Neilson, Eliza Lucy Iron. Lucy's Journal Greenwood, Mississippi: Baff Printing Corporation, 1967 -Payne, Blanch. History of Costume : From the Ancient Mesopotamians to the Twentieth Century, Watson-Guptill Pubns; ISBN: 0823049582 December 1994 -Smith, Barbara Clark. Men and Women : A History of Costume, Gender, and Power Natl Museum of Amer History; ISBN: 0929847024; (June 1990) -Wald, Carol. Myth America : Picturing Women, 1865-1945 Pantheon Books; ISBN: 0394498402 -Warner, Patricia Campbell. Clothing and the American Woman for Sport and Physical Education, 1860 to 1940 Public and Private. Dissertation 1986 in the collection of the Library at SUNY Fashion Institute of Technology -Welcome to Samantha's World-1904 : Growing Up in America's New Century. American Girls Collection. Pleasant Company Publications; ISBN: 1562477722; October 1999 -The Workwoman's Guide By a Lady (1838) Opus Publications; ISBN: 0940983001; (June 1986) |
| Cassell's Household Guide (late 1860s-70s) |
| Peterson's Magazine. August 1856 (p. 145) |
| Godey's Lady's Book July 1865 |
| Godey's Lady's Book. July 1864 |
| ~Internet Sources~ |
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| ~Cheef.com: Nude sea-bathing, Nothing New~ ~Circa Victoria: British Sea-Bathing~ ~The Costume Gallery: A year in Bathing Costumes 1886~ ~The Jane Austen Society of Australia: The bathing experiences of Jane Austen and Others~ |