http://walthamstow.london/News/few-people-recognize-that-swimsuits-as-we-understand-them-today-are-a-comparatively-recent-notion-the-noti/ 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, Wed, 25 Jan 2017 16:01:45 UTC en