Bathing Cabins

Eighteenth century to the early nineteenth it was common to see these mobile cabanas on the beach.
At the time it was frowned, especially for women, beings seen in swimwear.
He had to find a way to allow people to change and get to the waterfront to secluded.
They were invented in 1750 Benjamin Beale par, although we have evidence of their existence earlier.
They returned in the cab in street clothes and is changed while the cab was pulled to the water by oxen or horses.

It was essential that the cabin from seeing swimmers from the beach.
Once we had finished having fun in the water it was enough to hoist a flag to signal the need to bring the cabin to dry.

When he was more acceptable for men and women to swim together and be seen “shirt” their use was completely abandoned in the 1910-1920.































Obviously when you were a king, as Alfonso XIII, it was entitled to a more sophisticated model one can :










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