Retro sportswear style reigned at Miami Swim Week, from super-high-cut bottoms to sport color palettes and tees knotted as swim tops. This T-shirt twist is retro and sporty. This checkerboard one-piece is available now at Topshop and features serious cutout action. Vroom, vroom.
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The Real Origin of the Bikini Wasn't a Nuclear Explosion
The Vatican formally decreed the design sinful, and several U. Instead, he hired nude dancer Micheline Bernardini to debut his creation at a resort-side beauty pageant on July 5, He packaged the mere thirty squares inches of fabric inside a matchbox. Federal law enacted in required that the same synthetics used for bathing-suit production be reserved for the production of parachutes and other frontline necessities.
He called it the Bikini after the nuclear testing site Bikini Atoll because he believed it had the power to shock the public just as much as a nuclear bomb. Since then, the bikini has been immortalized in song, provoked controversies from morality to skin cancer, and is now a beach staple around the world. Search icon A magnifying glass. It indicates, "Click to perform a search". Close icon Two crossed lines that form an 'X'.
On July 5, , French designer Louis Reard unveils a daring two-piece swimsuit at the Piscine Molitor, a popular swimming pool in Paris. European women first began wearing two-piece bathing suits that consisted of a halter top and shorts in the s, but only a sliver of the midriff was revealed and the navel was vigilantly covered. In the United States, the modest two-piece made its appearance during World War II , when wartime rationing of fabric saw the removal of the skirt panel and other superfluous material. Meanwhile, in Europe, fortified coastlines and Allied invasions curtailed beach life during the war, and swimsuit development, like everything else non-military, came to a standstill.