Morality

Talk about uptight times. In old-time days, in the early 1900s, sexually repressed society actually had to employ people to measure women’s swimsuits to determine if they were in the bounds of being obscene or not-obscene. Basically, their job was to slut-shame women into wearing less revealing swimsuits.
In this shot “Smokey” Buchanan, a member of the West Palm Beach police force got the call to measure the swimsuit of Palm Beach resident Betty Fringle. His task was to ensure that the bathing suit conformed to the regulations of the “beach censors.”
Apparently, back then, society would become depraved and unhinged if women’s swimsuits were too short.
Source: Pinterest and History Daily