Anybody remember bathing caps?

[trof]

Just watching an old Busby Berkely musical (Gold Diggers of 1937) and there's a pool full of lovelies singing while performing synchronized swimming and all wearing matching bathing suits and bathing caps.

Really look funny now.
;-)

[Brickbat]

1. Our kids are required to wear them during swimming lessons.

They're kinda cute, although my long-haired 11-year-old resents his.

[Captain Hilts]

2. No matter how short a woman's hair, or how long a man's, WOMEN were forced to wear them.

I remember that.

They pulled your hair and gave you headaches.

[marzipanni]

3. I have a large head and thick hair - did not like bathing caps

When pools no longer required them it was a relief!
The flowered ones, with attached rubber blooms, were the funniest-
http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&source=imghp&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=1&q=bathing%20cap%20with%20flowers&tbs=isch:1

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. My dear trof!

Oh, God, yes, I remember those!

I HATED them.

I don't swim any more, so it's a non-issue for me...

They didn't keep my hair dry either. Bleh.

:D

[trof]

5. I actually have a bathing cap.

It was required in German public pools when I spent some time there in the 80s.
Bathing suit?
Not required.

They said the latex cap was 'for hygiene'.
But what about the hair 'down there'?
Evidently not a problem.
:rofl:

[TheCentepedeShoes]

6. Yes, required at the Y

Felt like an octopus sucker clamped on my head

[Kat45]

7. Yup. I remember them when I was a kid.

We needed one to go in the pool at Girl Scout day camp. It sucked but not as bad as having to put your face in the overly-chlorinated water with dead bugs floating in it--that was disgusting!

[janx]

8. Those were weird!

I remember wearing one as a very young child, and it had some kind of tentacle stuff! :rofl:

Edit:

[applegrove]

9. I remember my grandmother and great aunt wearing them. They used to have really fancy ones with 3D

flowers all over them.

[davsand]

10. They came with removable chin straps.

I took swimming lessons at the Y and women had to wear them because they said our hair would mess up the drains (or was it the filters?) I always wondered what it was about men's hair that kept it from being a problem, but nobody could ever give me an answer to that.

I also remember in movies that the women could climb out of a pool, take that cap off, and have PERFECT hair. I know my hair always looked like a smashed wet mop when I took MY cap off. I do NOT miss those rubbery puppies at all.


Laura