Promiscuous Bathing: Victorian Outrage Over Indecency at the Public Beach

Re:Promiscuous Bathing: Victorian Outrage Over Indecency at ... by codezero on Monday May 22, 2017 @10:59AM (#14394098)

Also interesting, mentioned in this article but not fully explained are Bathing Machines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathing_machine

Essentially a carriage that sat in the water that you changed clothes in, sometime is to a provider outfit.

You climb in on one side on the beach and out the other into the water.

Amazing that social etiquette was so strong nobody asked "hey why don't we go right into the water?"

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Re:Promiscuous Bathing: Victorian Outrage Over Indecency at ... by whoisstan on Monday May 22, 2017 @11:06AM (#14394160)

some very interesting photos from way back then: http://www.whizzpast.com/photos-19th-century-bathing-machine...

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Re:Promiscuous Bathing: Victorian Outrage Over Indecency at ... by irrational on Monday May 22, 2017 @11:52AM (#14394558)

Hang on, this definitely needs a NSFW warning. Some ankles were clearly visible.

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Re:Promiscuous Bathing: Victorian Outrage Over Indecency at ... by rabboRubble on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @01:18AM (#14398963)

Dang you... I spit up on my screen a bit~

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Re:Promiscuous Bathing: Victorian Outrage Over Indecency at ... by ghostDancer on Monday May 22, 2017 @02:39PM (#14395915)

In the city where i live , there were carriages that took you (the wealthy) to the water and back but if you were the Queen obviously you had your own personal mobile palace, powered with a steam motor: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historia_de_San_Sebasti%C3%A1n...

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Re:Promiscuous Bathing: Victorian Outrage Over Indecency at ... by codezero on Monday May 22, 2017 @03:46PM (#14396381)

That's amazing. I'm surprised these don't exist as AirBnB rentals now :P

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Re:Promiscuous Bathing: Victorian Outrage Over Indecency at ... by chippy on Monday May 22, 2017 @01:02PM (#14395178)

Interesting that early on people didn't wear bathing costumes and bathed naked. A Bathing Machine seems to be a good idea in that case, where you can enter and leave the water in full nakedness.

It seems that a hundred years later, people were also wearing costumes, and as this was right when the lower classes were flocking to the sea for their vacations, going into the sea straight from the beach, I imagine, and when the machines became stationary and then turned into beach huts (still reasonably common on many UK beaches)

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