HOW THE WETSUIT CAME TO BE

Body Glove’s first wetsuit size chart used this photographic diagram. Image courtesy of Body Glove/via Drift Surfing

Check out if you are someone like me who has a love/hate relationship with their suit.

 

Diver John Foster wears two of Bradner’s early neoprene wetsuit prototypes, circa 1952. Images courtesy of Scripps Institution of Oceanography Archives, UC San Diego Library.

 

 

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