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Why did we have to wear bathing caps?
I’m watching a documentary on Walt Disney, and they showed a shot of his wife and daughters, when the girls were little. This would have been in the 40’s, and the girls and the mom were in the pool and had on bathing caps (they called them “bathing caps” but it’s what the women wore when they went swimming.) Well, that flashed me back to when I was young…oh, up until I was about 7. My Mom always wore a swim cap, and I had to wear one too.
I remember one I really liked to look at. It had floppy plastic, yellow flowers on it…but it, like ALL bathing caps, were just awful to put on and to wear. I’d have to hold my hair up and Mom would streeeetch it out and bring it down and “snap!” it around my head, and then we’d have to push any stray hairs up under the band of the cap and THAT hurt. It pinched my skin, it pulled my hair…why oh why did we have to wear them???
OK. 90% of you are going WTH is she talking about? But some of you know exactly what I’m talking about! It just never occurred to me before now to wonder why we wore them..? As a kid, I HATED them!
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