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Also interesting, mentioned in this article but not fully explained are Bathing Machines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathing_machine https://en.wikipedia.org

Also interesting, mentioned in this article but not fully explained are Bathing Machines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathing_machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathing_machine Essentially a carriage that sat in the water that you changed clothes in, sometime is to a provider outfit. You climb in on one side on the beach and out the other into the water. Amazing that social etiquette was so strong nobody asked "hey why don't we go right into the water?"

whoisstan 9y ago
some very interesting photos from way back then: http://www.whizzpast.com/photos-19th-century-bathing-machines/ http://www.whizzpast.com/photos-19th-century-bathing-machine...
- irrational 9y ago
  Hang on, this definitely needs a NSFW warning. Some ankles were clearly visible.
  - rabboRubble 9y ago
    Dang you... I spit up on my screen a bit~
chippy 9y ago
Interesting that early on people didn't wear bathing costumes and bathed naked. A Bathing Machine seems to be a good idea in that case, where you can enter and leave the water in full nakedness. It seems that a hundred years later, people were also wearing costumes, and as this was right when the lower classes were flocking to the sea for their vacations, going into the sea straight from the beach, I imagine, and when the machines became stationary and then turned into beach huts (still reasonably common on many UK beaches)
ghostDancer 9y ago
In the city where i live , there were carriages that took you (the wealthy) to the water and back but if you were the Queen obviously you had your own personal mobile palace, powered with a steam motor: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historia_de_San_Sebasti%C3%A1n#/media/File:Donostia_-_San_Sebastian_1908_1.jpg https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historia_de_San_Sebasti%C3%A1n...
- codezero 9y ago
  That's amazing. I'm surprised these don't exist as AirBnB rentals now :P

whoisstan 9y ago

some very interesting photos from way back then: http://www.whizzpast.com/photos-19th-century-bathing-machines/ http://www.whizzpast.com/photos-19th-century-bathing-machine...

irrational 9y ago
Hang on, this definitely needs a NSFW warning. Some ankles were clearly visible.
- rabboRubble 9y ago
  Dang you... I spit up on my screen a bit~

chippy 9y ago

Interesting that early on people didn't wear bathing costumes and bathed naked. A Bathing Machine seems to be a good idea in that case, where you can enter and leave the water in full nakedness. It seems that a hundred years later, people were also wearing costumes, and as this was right when the lower classes were flocking to the sea for their vacations, going into the sea straight from the beach, I imagine, and when the machines became stationary and then turned into beach huts (still reasonably common on many UK beaches)

ghostDancer 9y ago

In the city where i live , there were carriages that took you (the wealthy) to the water and back but if you were the Queen obviously you had your own personal mobile palace, powered with a steam motor: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historia_de_San_Sebasti%C3%A1n#/media/File:Donostia_-_San_Sebastian_1908_1.jpg https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historia_de_San_Sebasti%C3%A1n...

codezero 9y ago
That's amazing. I'm surprised these don't exist as AirBnB rentals now :P