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Sunday, February 22, 2009

Bikini Secrets

By Dennis Durrel

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 and Jaccques may have supposed the design for the bikini was an unique one but in a fact it really wasn't such a newborn design at all. Earliest Roman mosaics exist which display ladies in two-piece bra plus pantie shaped set of clothes which seem surprisingly like the modern 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 the 1960's once the first Bond girl, Ursula Andress, came drenched from the sea in her short bikini to the appreciationof James Bond himself, the bikini has become one of the most trendy styles in ladies' swimsuit. Diffidence be suspended. 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 style of bikini contain a bandeau model top which has a rectangular strip of fabric covering up the breasts, one with a top similar to a push-up bra, and more simple bottom parts like briefs, shorts, or briefs with a miniskirt attached. Fresh versions consist of the tankini which has a tank top plus the monokini, skimpy one-piece of clothing that looks like the bikini, leaving the midriff mostly bare.

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