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Twenties • Swimming as a Sport

• Ladies bathing costumes designed as swimwear.
The winner of the Kings Lynn Ladies Swimming Club Championship Bowl some date in the 1920s

Competitive swimming for Ladies was well established by the 1920s and influenced beach costume design.
The wraps, skirts and drawers were banished as impractical for swimming.

The badge embroidered on her costume reads  KLLsc

About 17 years old  • date about 1924  • Estimate born 1907 ± 3 years