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University Student Bathers
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Standing on the Alpha Chi Omega sorority pier, Willard Grasser and Robert Estes show what is and is not permitted with regard to men's bathing suits. "The Capital Times" reported that Estes' abbreviated trunks have the approval of Police Chief McCormick, but Grasser's dropped shoulder strap violates Madison's code of decency. "If the suit has shoulder straps, the straps must stay on the shoulders."
July 29, 1935
McVicar, Angus Boyd, 1903-1964
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University Student Bathers
July 29, 1935
Group of men and women modeling bathing suits that have been approved by the police chief on the Alpha Chi Omega pier on Lake Mendota.
Bathers at the Willows Beach
June 18, 1931
Bathers at the Willows Beach, standing on the pier.
Bathers at the Willows Beach
June 18, 1931
View from shoreline looking down towards bathers at the Willows Beach, standing on a pier and swimming in the lake.
Alpha Nu Sorority Omega Chapter
Non-Stock Corporations, Milwaukee County
Bathing Beauties
June 10, 1932
Fanchon & Marco girls on pier. (Twelve bathing beauties in bathing suits on Willows pier.)
