Women continued to have swimsuit regulations enforced on them in the '20s.

Throughout this decade, women had to be careful to make sure their suits weren't too short or too revealing since beaches had certain swimsuit regulations designed with modesty in mind. 

In some parts of the US, including places like Atlantic City, New York City, and Chicago, special deputies or regular police officers would patrol beaches, sometimes using measuring tape to measure certain parts of a woman's outfit, like the distance between her knee and her suit. If the officer felt the woman was showing too much bare skin, she could go to jail.

Many women, including noted novelist Louise Rosine, protested these regulations. Per The Week, Rosine was arrested and jailed in Atlantic City in 1921 because she refused to wear the required stockings with her bathing suit.

Following the arrest, Rosine reportedly said: "The city has no right to tell me how I shall wear my stockings. It is none of their darn business. I will go to jail first."

The enforcement and protesting of these swimsuit regulations continued throughout the '30s and '40s.

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