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 ...

Former Baltimore Mayor William Donald Schaefer lives! And so does his inflatable rubber ducky. After losing a bet, the longtime mayor and two-term Maryland governor once donned a Victorian-era bathing ...

“The story really starts with the shift from bathing in Victorian times to swimming,” says FTM curator Dennis Nothdruft. “There was this great movement toward activity, and particularly women being ...

What happened to the “itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka-dot bikini” song by Brian Hyland released in 1960? If this song seems outdated, think about Victorian bathing machines that were once used ...