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...trunks. The suit, a male model that had sleeves and knee-length legs in the style of the day, was not designed to help anyone set aquatic records: it weighed 2 Ibs. dry and 8 Ibs. wet. But because it kept its shape better than others and gave the bather more freedom, people swarmed to buy it. Jantzen soon abandoned its sweaters, socks, gloves and other woolens, concentrated on bathing suits. It got its biggest boost from its trademark, a diving girl clad in what was quite a daring outfit for those days: red bathing suit, red stockings...
...Mute, a sad-eyed man holds out his hands in silent frustration. In The Indomitable Bather, Ayrton catches the humor and pathos of a more familiar subject, "a small boy who finds it bloody cold in the water, but his passionate desire to stay there is greater than the physical discomfort. He feels violently about it, but doesn't say anything, just stands there shivering to death, poor little blighter...
...basic attribute of Western sculpture, that look of motion kept reappearing throughout the Met's show. It was present in Tullio Lombardo's 15th Century Adam and in Jean Antoine Houdon's 18th Century masterpiece, The Bather. A 20th Century example was the lie de France, a nude female torso by the late great Frenchman Aristide Maillol, who had gone so far as to imitate even the damages to classical sculpture by leaving off head, arms arid feet...
...Metropolitan District Commissioner has left the rosewater bather out of his calculations this summer with the announcement that over a dozen beaches are now open on the Charles River from the Boston Basin to Populatic Pond 25 miles upstream. More accessible than Revere or Nantasket, Magazine Beach and Gerry's Landing are designed for early morning dips...
...vapor-bath system which sprays the bather with various chemicals. Price: $2,200. It was represented as effective for diabetes, abscess of the lung, decay of the jawbones, blood poisoning, a long list of other ailments...