15. Athletic Wear: Attack of the Playclothes

1. Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast, Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear Through the Ages, ed. Sarah Hermsen, vol. 5 (Detroit: UXL, 2004), 983.

2. Richard Martin and Harold Koda, Jocks and Nerds: Men’s Style in the Twentieth Century (New York: Rizzoli, 1989), 23.

3. Rebecca Arnold, The American Look: Fashion, Sportswear and the Image of Women in 1930s and 1940s New York (London: I. B. Tauris, 2009), 199; also “Dress Trade More Attentive to Resort Wear,” Women’s Wear Daily, November 11, 1938.

4. Judith Thurman, “Closet Encounters: Charting the Rise of the Fashionable American Woman,” The New Yorker (May 10, 2010), www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/artworld/2010/05/10/100510craw_artworld_thurman.

5. Alison Lurie, The Language of Clothes (New York: Henry Holt, 2000), 58.

6. Bradley Quinn, “Sportswear,” in A – Z of Fashion.

7. Martin and Koda, Jocks and Nerds, 30.

8. Ibid., 28.

9. Ibid., 27.

10. James Laver, Costume and Fashion: A Concise History (New York: Thames & Hudson, 2002), 60.

11. “History of the Bikini,” Time.com, http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1908353,00.html.

12. Marybelle S. Bigelow, Fashion in History: Apparel in the Western World (Minneapolis: Burgess, 1979), 295.

13. Patrik Alac, The Bikini: A Cultural History (London and New York: Parkstone Press, 2002), 21.

14. Ibid., 29.

15. Ibid., 31.

16. Sara Pendergast and Tom Pendergast, Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear Through the Ages, ed. Sarah Hermsen, vol. 5 (Detroit: UXL, 2004), 854.

17. Alac, The Bikini, 32.

18. Jantzenswim.com.

19. Jane Pavitt, “Logos,” in A – Z of Fashion.

20. Martin and Koda, Jocks and Nerds, 121.

21. Pavitt, “Logos.”

22. Martin and Koda, Jocks and Nerds, 30.