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The birth of the surfers party, Captain Cooke’s first view of surfing in Hawai’i. Missionaries soon put the muumuu on this ‘frivolous and lascivious’ fun! We salute the surfer-girls who lifted the muumuu curse in the mid twentieth century, their Makaha aloha queen Rell Sunn – and every woman who surfs.
After the success of Gidget in 1959, Hollywood hacks fanned the flames of surfing into a bonfire everyone wanted to strip down and dance around. Miki Dora body-doubled for Bobby Vinton in this 1964 exploitation film and poster.