IMAGE
Early women's bikini swimming costume on display in James Smith Ltd
- Date
- 1940s
- By
- James Smith's (Firm)
- Reference
- PAColl-3332-03-32
- Description
Mannequin dummy dressed in an early version of a women's bikini bathing costume on display in the window of James Smith Ltd Wellington. It's novelty is suggested by the reactions and number of people viewing it from the street which the photographer has caught through the window glass.
Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- James Smith Ltd :Photographs of personnel, activities and shops / Photographs of personnel, shop interiors and womens fashions
- Format
- 1 b&w original photographic print(s), Photographs
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