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[10] [11] Each issue had a theme, setting, and a briefly-outlined plot that served as a framing device for the issue's illustrations. Marvel Illustrated: The Swimsuit Issue is set during the "Super Olympics" organized by Stark Enterprises in the Savage Land, with the images presented as characters modelling swimwear designed by Janet Van Dyne. [12]
The facekini (Chinese: 脸基尼; pinyin: liǎnjīní) is a mask designed for swimmers and beachgoers that covers the head and face, revealing only the eyes, nose, and mouth. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The mask is made of stretchy fabric commonly used in bathing suits , [ 4 ] and comes in different colors and patterns. [ 5 ]
The issue carries advertising that, in 2005, amounted to US$35 million in value. [1] First published in 1964, it is credited with making the bikini, invented in 1946, [2] a legitimate piece of apparel. [3] Since 1964, the issue had been published every February, but starting in 2019, the issue was made available in May. [4] [5]
The history of competitive swimwear has been dominated by concerns over public nudity in the first half of the 20th century and by efforts to reduce water drag in the second half. [1] Those efforts initially led swimmers to reduce the early sagging one-piece swimsuits down to briefs only. With the development of new materials that tightly fit ...
A one-piece swimsuit most commonly refers to swimwear worn primarily by women and girls when swimming in the sea or in a swimming pool, playing water polo, or for any activity in the sun, such as sun bathing. Today, the one-piece swimsuit is usually a skin-tight garment that covers the torso, although some designs expose the back or upper chest.
In 1999 a Miami University male professor was banned from using the school's recreation center because he refused to stop wearing thong swimwear. The professor challenged the school in court. [ 11 ] In 2000 a high school principal in Salinas, California was in the center of a variety of controversies including bans on certain types of clothing ...
The first annual bathing-suit day at New York's Madison Square Garden in 1916 was a landmark. [11] The swimsuit apron, a design for early swimwear, disappeared by 1918, leaving a tunic covering the shorts. [12] A policeman enforcing the six inch distance between knee and bathing suit ordinance in 1922, Washington, D.C.