(04 Nov 2013, 22:38 )Like Ra Wrote: (04 Nov 2013, 18:59 )culmor Wrote: I have the collected volumes of John Willies 'Bizarre' that ran 1946-59
The two thick books you mean? I bought them in London back in 1998 😉
(04 Nov 2013, 18:59 )culmor Wrote: I'm sure there are a few rubber one-piece swimsuits in there
I do not think it's got something in common with the actual reality, but I was not around in the 50's 😉
I can tell you from extensive study that there was a hey day of rubber swimsuits from about 1935 until the rub rubber shortage of WW2 stopped them never to return, when Lastex yarn took over foy elastic clothing. I'd very likely some rubber swimsuits from the Thirties got into John Willie's albums.
White rubber maillots were of course standard costume fare in Hollywood of the 30s and 40s and it was rumored that the famed Betty Grable pin-up of WW2 days was a white rubber swimsuit.
It I ever get my stuff together, I will find number of 1930's rubber swimsuit pics and anecdotes I have somewhere around here. There are items like a note about a found BF Goodrich employee being awarded a rubber swimsuit as a present to wear in a beauty contest, and a strong defense of his employer's anti-splitting, anti-ripping qualities.
Rubber swimsuits I have seen named were US Rubber, Miller Rubber and Kleinert among others. Even though they started making latex products in the 1930s, the fabled Playtex never got into rubber swimsuits.