What 1924 Looks Like in a Swimsuit

There’s a video of Kate Upton dancing to It Had to Be You—the 1924 Isham Jones standard, the one that’s been in a hundred films—and the combination is so deliberately anachronistic that it works perfectly: old-money sentiment, a swimsuit, and the particular confidence of someone who has already figured out exactly what the camera wants from her. Upton had gone viral earlier that year with a clip of her dancing at a party, nothing staged about it, and that kind of internet momentum usually burns out fast. But something about her survived the cycle, maybe because she seems genuinely unbothered by the machinery that built her fame.