Australian long-distance swimmer Annette Kellerman is arrested for indecent exposure at Revere Beach in Boston for wearing a one-piece bathing suit without a skirt.

Paris causes a stir by introducing a "short" skirt that ends at the top of the fashionable woman's boot.

A man's raccoon-fur automobile coat is advertised in The New York Times for $47.50, a derby hat for $2.75.

Architect Daniel Burnham completes the Marshall Field and Company building in Chicago and Union Station in Washington, D.C.

U.S. automobile production reaches forty-three thousand units.

Alanson Partridge Brush introduces the Brush Runabout automobile, priced at $500; a Cadillac sells for $800.