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1907: Annette Kelerman was arrested for this photo.

 Australian swimmer Annette Kelerman in the U.S. was arrested for promoting women's rights to 

wear the one-piece swimming costume.

In 1907 Kelerman visit the United States as "underwater ballerina", a sort of combination  

synchronized swimming to diving. There she was arrested for "public demonstration" because the  

needs of its points wore one-piece swimming costume, then banned for women in the United States.

She later branded line one piece swimming costume for women known as Annette Kellerman.