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8) Olivia Rodrigo ’s song “Drivers License” may have made Billboard’s Hot 100, but her fit figure has landed her spot number 8 on Us Weekly ’s best bikini bodies list. In April 2021, she ...
1870s American bathing suit for women, made of wool and covering arms and legs Man and woman in swimsuits, c. 1910; she is exiting a bathing machine. The English practice of men swimming in the nude was banned in the United Kingdom in 1860. Drawers, or caleçons as they were called, came into use in the 1860s. Even then, there were many who ...
Women's swimwear of the 1930s and 1940s incorporated increasing degrees of midriff exposure. The 1932 Hollywood film Three on a Match featured a midriff-baring two-piece bathing suit. Actress Dolores del Río was the first major star to wear a two-piece women's bathing suit onscreen in Flying Down to Rio (1933).
The swimsuit issue was invented by Sports Illustrated editor Andre Laguerre to fill the winter months, a typically slow point in the sporting calendar. [ 1 ] He asked fashion reporter Jule Campbell to go on a shoot to fill space, including the cover, with a beautiful model. The first issue, released in 1964, entailed a cover featuring Babette ...
Today's bathing suits range from modest to risqué, but that wasn't always the case. As early as 4th century B.C. mosaics can be found of female athletes adorned in outfits that come quite close ...
Aussie stunner Elle Macpherson graced the cover in 1998 and she shared a photo recently of her incredible cover. On the cover she was more covered up than recent stars and rocked a black one-piece ...
Evidence of bikini -style women's clothing has been found as early as 5600 BC, and the history of the bikini can be traced back to that era. Illustrations of women wearing bikini-like garments during competitive athletic events in the Roman era have been found in several locations, the most famous of which is at Villa Romana del Casale.
Tiziano Magni/Sports Illustrated Swimsuit. Kournikova, a Russia native, was a star both on and off the court. On the court, she made it to the semifinals at Wimbledon in 1997 and the quarterfinals ...