Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Bikini Features

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 plus Jaccques may have imagined the idea for the bikini was a creative one but in a fact it actually wasn't such a new idea at all. Earliest Roman mosaics exist which demonstrate women in two-piece bra plus panty shaped outfits which appear surprisingly similar to the modern-day bikini.

According to some stories Rard plus Heim named their new bathing suit a 'bikini' after the place of the current nuclear weapons test at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. They assumed the original bathing outfit could have an "explosive" effect ! They were definitely true about it!

By the 1960's whilst the first Bond girl, Ursula Andress, came drenched from the ocean in her teeny tiny bikini to the appreciationof James Bond himself, the bikini was already one of the most trendy fashions in females' swimwear. Diffidence be suspended. The bikini had raised in popularity.

These days on shore and by swimming pools in the whole world you may see a brand 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 covering the breasts and genitals and also only strings making up the rest. A number of string bikinis also present coverage of the butts, since the 1946 one did not. No wonder back then they felt it was shameful!

Another type of bikini consist of a bandeau type top which has a rectangular strip of fabric covering up the breasts, one with a top similar to a push-up bra, and more ordinary bottom pieces such as briefs, shorts, or briefs with a small skirt attached. New kinds consist of the tankini which has a tank top and the monokini, meager one-piece of clothing which looks like the bikini, leaving the midriff ordinarily bare. - 15438

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