The Bikini Explosion


by Alex Cassidy - Date: 2010-06-16 - Word Count: 390 Share This!

The bikini is a women's two-piece swimsuit that covers the chest and groin regions. The modern bikini was launched by a French engineer called Louis Reard in 1946. Originally it was considered risqué but the two piece design in fact came from ancient times. The most primitive form of the bikini, as cited by Wikipedia, initially appeared from around 350BCE to 1700BCE. Bikinis appear in ancient Roman mosaics and murals, signifying they had been popular as swimming costumes amongst Roman women. Women wearing bikinis appear on ancient Greek urns, ancient Sicilian floor mosaics, and statues from Pompeii. Archaeologists, additionally, have discovered Minoan wall paintings, about 1600BCE depicting a two-piece design exceptionally alike to the modern bikini.

The first bikini, a two-piece women's swimming suit was created from barely 30 inches of material. Reard's rival in bikini design, Jacques Helm, was in reality the first to create the iconic two-piece swimsuit of the 20th century. As a tribute to the smallest particle in the world known at the time, Helm called his design "atome". Reard, a marketing genius, announced his skimpy two-piece design five days after the United States began atomic tests in the Bikini Atoll (Marshall Islands) and called it "bikini" to suggest that it would have similar explosive impact on society as an A-bomb.

The bikini was introduced to the U.S. in 1947and its indecent standing stayed well into the 1950s. A lot of American cities even passed laws to prohibit the wearing of a bikini in public. In 1957, Modern Girl magazine stated "It is hardly necessary to waste words over the so-called bikini because it is inconceivable that any girl with tact and decency would ever wear such a thing." The bikini didn't really appeal to American ladies until well into the 1960s with the dawn of the Sexual Revolution. Since then, the bikini and its fashionable variations have only grown in popularity.

It helps to be familiar with the existing kinds before going shopping. one can find so numerous varieties in bikini design. Your body shape and your level of self-confidence will have an influence on the form of bikini you choose. Bikinis come in a number of fabrics including Lycra, nylon, cotton, and spandex. They also come in an almost infinite amount of colors and patterns. To discover the most in style variations of bikinis today visit in-bikini.com

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