Jesus said that the disciple of the kingdom of heaven "brings new and old things out of storage" (Matt 13:52)--and in regard to women's fashion, ain't that the truth? Faith Central has a nice rundown on modest women's swimwear from Christian and Muslim vendors--it's new, but oh so old.

Pictured below: Bill Norton, the bathing beach policeman of Washington, D.C., in 1922 enforcing a regulation prohibiting a woman's bathing suit from stopping more than six inches above the knee.