The bikini is one of the most fashionable and maybe the smallest styles ever created! The bikini was familiarized to the public by Louis Rard and Jacques Heim in a 1946 fashion exhibition. The design was very outrageous for the times that only a stripped dancer might agree to model it!
Louis and Jaccques may have thought the idea for the bikini wasan original one butin fact it really wasn't such a new idea at all.Ancient Roman mosaics exist which show women in two-piece bra and pantieshaped costumes that look surprisingly like the modern-day bikini.
Based on some stories Rard plus Heim called their new-found bathing outfit a 'bikini' after the site of the current nuclear weapons try at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. They considered the new bathing suit would have an "explosive" result! They were undoubtedly correct about that!
By the1960's when the first Bond girl,Ursula Andress,came dripping from the ocean in her teeny tiny bikini to the appreciation of James Bond himself,the bikini was already one of the most popular styles in women's swimwear. Modesty be hanged! The bikini had caught on.
Today onbeaches and bypools worldwide you can find a variety of bikinis. The one that started it all in 1946 was actually one of the most 'revealing'. It was astring bikini, with triangles of fabric covering the breasts and genitals and only strings making up the rest. Many string bikinis also offer coverage of the buttocks, though the 1946 one did not. No wonder back then they thought it was scandalous!
Another variety of bikini contain a bandeau type top that has a rectangular strip of fabric covering up the breasts, one with a top like a push-up bra, and more modest bottom pieces like briefs, shorts, or briefs with a miniskirt attached. Recent brands contain the tankini that has a tank top and the monokini, scanty one-piece garment which looks like the bikini, leaving the midriff typically bare. - 15252
Louis and Jaccques may have thought the idea for the bikini wasan original one butin fact it really wasn't such a new idea at all.Ancient Roman mosaics exist which show women in two-piece bra and pantieshaped costumes that look surprisingly like the modern-day bikini.
Based on some stories Rard plus Heim called their new-found bathing outfit a 'bikini' after the site of the current nuclear weapons try at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. They considered the new bathing suit would have an "explosive" result! They were undoubtedly correct about that!
By the1960's when the first Bond girl,Ursula Andress,came dripping from the ocean in her teeny tiny bikini to the appreciation of James Bond himself,the bikini was already one of the most popular styles in women's swimwear. Modesty be hanged! The bikini had caught on.
Today onbeaches and bypools worldwide you can find a variety of bikinis. The one that started it all in 1946 was actually one of the most 'revealing'. It was astring bikini, with triangles of fabric covering the breasts and genitals and only strings making up the rest. Many string bikinis also offer coverage of the buttocks, though the 1946 one did not. No wonder back then they thought it was scandalous!
Another variety of bikini contain a bandeau type top that has a rectangular strip of fabric covering up the breasts, one with a top like a push-up bra, and more modest bottom pieces like briefs, shorts, or briefs with a miniskirt attached. Recent brands contain the tankini that has a tank top and the monokini, scanty one-piece garment which looks like the bikini, leaving the midriff typically bare. - 15252
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