The bikini is one of the most fashionable and possibly the smallest fashions ever made! The bikini was launched to the people by Louis Rard and Jacques Heim in a 1946 fashion extravaganza. The design was very outrageous for the moment that only a stripped performer would agree to model it!
Louis and Jaccques may have supposed the concept for the bikini was a new one but in a fact it actually wasn't such a new-found concept at all. Ancient Roman mosaics exist which show ladies in two-piece bra plus panty shaped costumes that look shockingly similar to the modern-day bikini.
According to somestories Rard and Heim named their new bathing suit a 'bikini' after the site of the recent nuclear weapons test atBikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. They thought the new bathing suit would have an "explosive" effect! They were certainly right 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.
At present on coast and by pools in the whole world you may see a model of bikinis. The one which started it all in 1946 was really one of the most 'revealing'. It was a string bikini, with triangles of fabric covering up the breasts and genitals and only strings making up the rest. A number of string bikinis also present coverage of the butts, as the 1946 one did not. No doubt back then they felt it was shameful!
Another variety of bikini contain a bandeau model top which has a rectangular strip of fabric covering up the breasts, one with a top like a push-up bra, and more simple bottom parts like briefs, shorts, or briefs with a miniskirt attached. New versions consist of the tankini which has a tank top and the monokini, skimpy one-piece of clothing which resembles the bikini, leaving the midriff typically bare. - 17943
Louis and Jaccques may have supposed the concept for the bikini was a new one but in a fact it actually wasn't such a new-found concept at all. Ancient Roman mosaics exist which show ladies in two-piece bra plus panty shaped costumes that look shockingly similar to the modern-day bikini.
According to somestories Rard and Heim named their new bathing suit a 'bikini' after the site of the recent nuclear weapons test atBikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. They thought the new bathing suit would have an "explosive" effect! They were certainly right 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.
At present on coast and by pools in the whole world you may see a model of bikinis. The one which started it all in 1946 was really one of the most 'revealing'. It was a string bikini, with triangles of fabric covering up the breasts and genitals and only strings making up the rest. A number of string bikinis also present coverage of the butts, as the 1946 one did not. No doubt back then they felt it was shameful!
Another variety of bikini contain a bandeau model top which has a rectangular strip of fabric covering up the breasts, one with a top like a push-up bra, and more simple bottom parts like briefs, shorts, or briefs with a miniskirt attached. New versions consist of the tankini which has a tank top and the monokini, skimpy one-piece of clothing which resembles the bikini, leaving the midriff typically bare. - 17943
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