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Description
The fourth annual Dipsea Girls' Hike drew an astonishing number of competitors, wearing costumes that would have been unthinkable ten years earlier. World War I, the 19th Amendment, and bobbed hair had liberated women to a remarkable degree. But the event was discontinued the following year, according to Dipsea historian Mark Reese, because of clergymen's worries about the morality of hiking costumes, and physicians' concern about excessive stress on women's bodies. Women were not permitted to enter the regular Dipsea until 1971. The photo is a panoramic view of hundreds of participants and male onlookers lined up in front of the train depot ready for the start of the hike.
Women Racing Runners Runners (Sports) Running Running races Hiking Dipsea Hike for Women
Place
Mill Valley (Calif.)
Source
Selected photograph from page 221 of “The Dipsea Race: The History of America's Second Oldest Footrace, 1905-1979" by Mark M. Reese; Selected photograph from pages 74-75 of “Mount Tamalpais A History” by Lincoln Fairley
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