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Around the same time, the bathing suit business took off, as war-time fabric rationing lifted and the culture shifted to allow less modesty and more playful expression.

Kitten heels and full skirts, capri pants and tailored menswear, blouses with crisp collars and one-piece bathing suits feel less like “now” and more like “back then.”

I moved to Cabo, lived in a bathing suit, walked onstage with no shirt back in those days.

It takes spending sustained time with those same people, in bathing suits no less, to realize how far apart you’ve drifted ideologically, or sympathetically.

Eaton Canyon trail hikers showed up in their bathing suits, carrying towels.