Women’s swimwear was neither comfortable nor practical back in the day, as Daisy Ridley can attest. To play trailblazing ocean swimmer Gertrude “Trudy” Ederle in Young Woman and the Sea (in theaters ...
“The story really starts with the shift from bathing in Victorian times to swimming,” says FTM curator Dennis Nothdruft. “There was this great movement toward activity, and particularly women being ...