Talk:Sea bathing

Vote for Deletion
This article survived a Vote for Deletion. The discussion can be found here. -Splash 01:48, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Disputing accuracy of cut and pasted text- possible COPYVIO
To quote:

''Female bathing costumes in particular were derived from what was worn at Bath and other spas. By the 1670s nude bathing there had given way to clothed bathing. In 1687 Celia Fiennes gave a detailed description of the standard attire for women:


 * The Ladyes go into the bath with Garments made of a fine yellow canvas, which is stiff and made large with great sleeves like a parson’s gown; the water fills it up so that it is borne off that your shape is not seen, it does not cling close as other linning, which Lookes sadly in the poorer sort that go in their own linning. The Gentlemen have drawers and wastcoates of the same sort of canvas, this is the best linning, for the bath water will Change any other yellow.[9]

''The Bath Corporation official bathing dress code of 1737 also prescribed, for women: ''
 * ''No Female person shall at any time hereafter go into a Bath or Baths within this City by day or by night without a decent Shift on their bodies.[7]

 The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker, published in 1771, contained a description of ladies’ bathing costume which is different from that of Celia Fiennes a hundred years earlier:''


 * The ladies wear jackets and petticoats of brown linen, with chip hats, in which they fix their handkerchiefs to wipe the sweat from their faces; but, truly, whether it is owing to the steam that surrounds them, or the heat of the water, or the nature of the dress, or to all these causes together, they look so flushed, and so frightful, that I always turn my eyes another way.[10]

Firstly Bath, Somerset is an inland spa-town- not remotely connected to the sea. If costumes for sea dipping were derived from inland spar towns it is the illogical to assume they were the same.


 * Penelope Byrde points out that Smollett’s description may not be accurate, for he describes a two-piece costume, not the one piece shift or smock that most people describe and is depicted in contemporary prints. His description does, however, tally with Elizabeth Grant’s description of the guide’s costume at Ramsgate in 1811. The only difference is in the fabric the costumes are made of. Flannel, however, was a common fabric for sea bathing costumes as many believed the warmer fabric was necessary in cold water.[1]

Secondly- we have link rot.

Thirdly- all the text above appears in the |‎ article quoted I bagni di mare di Jane Austin so is a COPYVIO and needs to be deleted -- Clem Rutter (talk) 19:00, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

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