Friday, February 20, 2009

Introducing Bikini--Teenie Weenie Bit of History

By Dennis Durrel

The bikini is one of the most well-liked and probably the smallest fashions ever made! The bikini was brought to the people by Louis Rard and Jacques Heim in a 1946 fashion show . The design was so immoral for the times that only a naked performer could agree to perform it!

Louis plus Jaccques may have considered the design for the bikini was an innovative one although in a fact it really wasn't such a brand new idea at all. Early Roman mosaics exist which show females in two-piece bra and pantie shaped costumes that seem shockingly similar to the modern bikini.

Based on several stories Rard plus Heim called their new bathing suit a 'bikini' after the site of the current nuclear weapons check at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. They believed the brand new bathing suit might have an "explosive" effect ! They were undoubtedly correct about that!

By the 1960's while the first Bond girl, Ursula Andress, came drenched from the ocean in her tiny bikini to the appreciation of James Bond himself, the bikini has become one of the most famous fashions in women's swimwear. The bikini had caught on.

Nowadays on shore and by swimming pools across the entire world, you will see a variety of bikinis. The thing which began 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 lot of string bikinis also present coverage of the buttocks, but the one in 1946 did not. No wonder back then they thought it was shameful!

Another type of bikini contain a bandeau type top which has a rectangular strip of fabric wrapping the breasts, one with a top like a push-up bra, and more ordinary bottom pieces like briefs, shorts, or briefs with a teeny skirt attached. Up to date styles consist of the tankini which has a tank top and the monokini, scanty one-piece garment which looks like the bikini, leaving the midriff commonly bare.

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