Bikini Tips
The bikini isone of the mostpopularandpossibly the smallest fashions ever created!The bikini was introduced to the public by Louis Rard and Jacques Heim in a 1946 fashion show. The design was so scandalous for the times that only a nude dancerwould agreeto model it!
Louis plus Jaccques may have thought the concept for the bikini was a creative one although in a fact it really wasn’t such a new-found inspiration at all. Olden Roman mosaics exist that show ladies in two-piece bra and pantie shaped set of clothes which look surprisingly like the modern-day bikini.
According to some stories Rard plus Heim called their newborn bathing outfit a ‘bikini’ after the place of the current nuclear weapons check at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. They considered the original bathing suit could have an “explosive” result! They were certainly correct about it!
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 shore and by pools in the whole world you can see a kind of bikinis. The one that started it all in 1946 was really one of the most ‘revealing’. It was a string bikini, with triangles of fabric wrapping 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 so they felt it was indecent!
Other styles of bikini include a bandeau type top which has a rectangular strip of fabric covering the breasts, one with a top similar to a push-up bra, and more modest bottom pieces such as briefs, shorts, or briefs with a small skirt attached. Modern versions includethetankiniwhich has a tank top and the monokini, skimpy one-piece garment that resembles the bikini, leaving the midriff mostly bare.
