wearing special clothes to swim in is scarcely a century old.







160. Skinnydipping, in the local river or farm pond, is well-documented as an important historical part of







our national heritage.







Skinnydipping and outdoor nudity appear in the writings of Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, William Allen







White, Lincoln Steffens, William Styron, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Herman Melville, James Michener,