“In the first photograph we see the policeman Bill Norton measuring the distance between the knee and the skirt of a young woman on a beach, because there was an order of the authorities so that the length of skirts and shorts were no more than six centimeters above the knee.”

“Look at the second photograph, what happened to women who disobeyed the rules, they were arrested and loaded into the van before a crowd of men. We were in 1922” 

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A man gives a woman a helping hand as she takes a flying leap over a large puddle on the pavement, 1960. From Keystone/Getty Images

A man gives a woman a helping hand as she takes a flying leap over a large puddle on the pavement, 1960.

From Keystone/Getty Images

Karel Hájek Clever Dogs, 34th National Exhibition of the Working Dogs, Undated

Karel Hájek

Clever Dogs, 34th National Exhibition of the Working Dogs, Undated

Wynn Bullock Child on Forest Road, 1958

Wynn Bullock

Child on Forest Road, 1958

National Media Museum ‘Decathlon reflections’, Olympic Games, London, 1948 Thanks to undr

National Media Museum

‘Decathlon reflections’, Olympic Games, London, 1948

Thanks to undr

Henri Cartier-Bresson Trafalgar Square on the Day of the Coronation of George VI, 1937 Thanks to mondonoir

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Trafalgar Square on the Day of the Coronation of George VI, 1937

Thanks to mondonoir

Martine Franck The Grande Arche de la Défense (commercial and financial district), Paris, 1989 From Magnum Photos Thanks to m3zzaluna

Martine Franck

The Grande Arche de la Défense (commercial and financial district), Paris, 1989

From Magnum Photos

Thanks to m3zzaluna

Nikos Economopoulos Greece, Attica region, Shantytown of Aspropirgos, near Athens, Gypsies, 1993. Thanks to wonderfulambiguity

Nikos Economopoulos

Greece, Attica region, Shantytown of Aspropirgos, near Athens, Gypsies, 1993.

Thanks to wonderfulambiguity

Paul Strand Waterwheel and Colossi, Gurna, Egypt, 1959

Paul Strand

Waterwheel and Colossi, Gurna, Egypt, 1959

Martin Munkacsi Working toward a Greater New York, 1940

Martin Munkacsi

Working toward a Greater New York, 1940