Arrested For Indecent Exposure
By celticeagle
@celticeagle (159105)
Boise, Idaho
May 20, 2017 6:47pm CST
I love these stories of women from the past.
In 1907 Annette Kellerman was arrested for indecent exposure. She was a professional swimmer and vaudevillian star as well as a business owner and film star. She had decided to wear her one piece suit that she used in her swimming instead of the pantaloons that were excepted as swim wear for women of that time period.
A police officer on the beach saw her and she was arrested. After this she designed a one piece body suit for woman and had also authored a swimming manual, helping to popularize the sport of synchronised swimming.
Kellerman was the first woman to appear in a Hollywood production in the nude. Throughout her life she was a supporter of fitness, health and natural beauty.
I wonder what she would think of our nude beaches of today.
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@topffer (42156)
• France
21 May 17
@celticeagle I would like. Some beaches are so crowded that you have to look where you put your feet to not walk on people
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@celticeagle (159105)
• Boise, Idaho
21 May 17
@topffer .....I've not been to one for many years. I will continue to not be I am thinking.
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@celticeagle (159105)
• Boise, Idaho
21 May 17
She believed in what she was doing and was an independent lady.
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@JamesHxstatic (29242)
• Eugene, Oregon
21 May 17
It sounds to me as if she would be one of the first hit the waves. She was a woman ahead of her time.
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