Rare Color Photos Show the Elegance and Charm of 1950s Women’s Swimwear

American swimwear manufacturers entered the 1950s with a design philosophy borrowed directly from the corset makers and eveningwear tailors of the previous decades. Rather than treating the swimsuit as simple beachwear, companies like Catalina, Cole of California, and Jantzen engineered garments meant to shape and flatter the body with the same precision applied to formal […]