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The history of the (women) bathing suit. The narrator begins the film by introducing the history of the bathing suit as the topic of the film. Archival footage of women wearing bathing suits in the early 20th century at the beach, doing aerobics, water skiing. A series of still photographs of women in bathing suits from the early 20th century to the 1970s. A series of stills of ancient Greek and Roman nude drawings. The narrator begins the history of the bathing suit with Adam and Eve. As the narrator goes through time, the stills are artworks from that time.