Looking at the Fortepan archives is like browsing the photo collections of at least half-a-dozen grandmas simultaneously. The pictures confirm that a 100 years ago Siófok had a sandy beach as cool as today, and the swimming suit trends of that time made men look like wrestlers and women like girls in school uniform. We brought you a selection of beach photos from between 1917 and 1933.

WW1 was still raging but people went to chill on the beach...

...that is the beach in Siófok.

These photos originate from Frigyes Schoch...

...and they were taken in 1917.

Almádi was in a fun mood after the war, in 1920

And it only escalated by 1926, the time preceding the Great Depression

Beach photos were already cool 80 years ago

As cool as painting a boat afloat white