A wave of discontent was sweeping through Rehoboth, and the town commissioners had to act. In 1905, the resort’s commissioners decreed that it was illegal “for any person to bathe in the ocean unless ...

Brace yourself. I’ve got a budgie to smuggle. As I’ve found out the hard way, Europeans like to think themselves sophisticated. They had a couple of enlightenment figures write some books a few ...

“One-piece bathing suits that leave practically nothing to the imagination,” the Wilmington Sunday Morning Star reported in 1924, “and two-piece affairs, that many considered add even more to the ...