Compared to our barely clad, spaghetti-strapped swimsuit styles, the bathing costumes of the 18th and 19th century seem laughably prudish. But those days, people worried that glimpsing more than a ...
HOUSTON – A fun guessing game turned into an interesting history lesson when a Galveston museum revealed the purpose behind bathing machines used in the during the Georgian or Victorian eras.
Victorian Bathing Machines: So Men Couldn’t Get Their Rocks Off In the 18th and 19th centuries, entire fleets of machines kept beachgoing women from doing the walk of shame. Victorian Bathing Machines ...