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The bathing machines in use in Margate, Kent, were described by Walley Chamberlain Oulton in 1805 as: [F]our-wheeled carriages, covered with canvas, and having at one end of them an umbrella of the same materials which is let down to the surface of the water, so that the bather descending from the machine by a few steps is concealed from the public view, whereby the most refined female is ...
A beach hut (also known as a beach cabin, beach box or bathing box) is a small, usually wooden and often brightly coloured, box above the high tide mark on popular bathing beaches. They are generally used as a shelter from the sun or wind, changing into and out of swimming attire and for the safe storing of some personal belongings.
Female bathing costumes were derived from those worn at Bath and other spas. It would appear that until the 1670s, nude female bathing in the spas was the norm, and that after that time women bathed clothed. Celia Fiennes gave a detailed description of the standard ladies' bathing costume in 1687:
Scarborough was the first resort to provide bathing machines for changing. Some men extended this to swimming in the sea, and by 1736, it was seen at Brighton and Margate, and later at Deal, Eastbourne, and Portsmouth. [13]: 12 In England, bathing in the sea by the lower classes was noted in Southampton by Thomas Gray in 1764, and in Exmouth in
The bathing machine was a device which flourished in the 19th century to allow people to wade in the ocean at beaches without violating Victorian notions of modesty. Bathing machines were in the form of roofed and walled wooden carts which would be rolled into the sea. Some had solid wooden walls; others had canvas walls over a wooden frame.
Several bathing machines can be seen. Sea bathing at Boulogne in the 1840s Bathing machine and woman's swimwear style of Germany, 1893 Man and woman in swimsuits, c. 1910; she is exiting a bathing machine. With Buchan's recommendations, people suddenly flocked to the coasts, especially to Great Britain and France.
Detail of Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine's Bath in the Park (1785) Astronaut Jack R. Lousma taking a shower in space, 1973. Bathing is the immersion of the body, wholly or partially, usually in water, but often in another medium such as hot air. It is most commonly practised as part of personal cleansing, and less frequently for relaxation ...
Bathing is the immersion of the body in a fluid (usually water), an aqueous solution, air (usually heated), or vapour. The main article for this category is Bathing . Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bathing .