Friday, February 27, 2009

Using Bikini

By Dennis Durrel

The bikini is one of the most famous and maybe the shortest styles ever created! The bikini was presented to the public by Louis Rard plus Jacques Heim in a 1946 fashion show . The model was so outrageous for the moment that only a uncovered dancer could approve to model it!

Louis and Jaccques may have imagined the concept for the bikini was a creative one although in a fact it really wasn't such a newborn concept at all. Early Roman mosaics exist that display women in two-piece bra plus pantie shaped dresses which appear shockingly similar to the current bikini.

According to a few stories Rard plus Heim called their new bathing suit a 'bikini' after the site of the recent nuclear weapons check at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. They considered the newborn bathing suit might have an "explosive" effect ! They were undoubtedly true about that!

By the 1960's when the first Bond girl, Ursula Andress, came drenched from the sea in her teeny bikini to the appreciationof James Bond himself, the bikini was already one of the most well-known fashions in ladies' swimwear. Modesty be hanged . The bikini had become fashionable.

Now on beaches and by pools in the entire world you may see a version of bikinis. The thing which started it all in 1946 was truly 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 lot of string bikinis also offer coverage of the butts, whilst the 1946 one did not. No surprise back so they considered it was outrageous!

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. - 16755

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