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presumably because these
were less transparent when
wet. Men who didn’t wear the
regulation costume when
‘ladies are present at Galas’
and who ‘swam without
drawers’ were disqualified.
Nine years later the rules
were again revised, and now
there was specific reference
to ‘Ladies’ races in Public’.
At competitions where ‘both
sexes were admitted’ females
over the age of fourteen had