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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 .
A woman wearing a black bikini at a beach in 2009. A bikini is a two-piece swimsuit primarily worn by women that features one piece on top that covers the breasts, and a second piece on the bottom: the front covering the pelvis but usually exposing the navel, and the back generally covering the intergluteal cleft and some or all of the buttocks.
A monokini, more commonly referred to as a topless swimsuit and sometimes referred to as a unikini, is a women's one-piece swimsuit equivalent to the lower half of a bikini. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] [ 20 ] In 1964, Rudi Gernreich , an Austrian fashion designer, designed the original monokini in the US. [ 21 ]
Men's swimwear was also going through a metamorphosis; swim suits started to feature more tank tops and even shorter shorts. Fast-forward ten years and the 1930s were embracing a lot more skin.
The 1800s: The bloomer. The link between repressive swimwear and the bikini is the bloomer, popular in the mid-1800s. A garment of wool, linen, or serge was cut into a top and a skirt, under which ...
The history of swimwear traces the changes in the styles of men's and women's swimwear over time and between cultures, and touches on the social, religious and legal attitudes to swimming and swimwear. In classical antiquity and in most cultures, swimming was either in the nude or the swimmer would merely strip to their underwear.
Two of the 17 swimsuit finalists wore two-piece swimsuits, and Erika Kauffman, representing Hawaii, wore the briefest bikini of all and won the swimsuit competition. [45] In 1949 the Los Angeles Times reported that Miss America BeBe Shopp on her visit to Paris said she did not approve the bikini for American girls, though she did not mind ...
Halle Berry was born a bikini babe. While reflecting on her greatest fashion moments of all time, the 55-year-old revealed new details about her “iconic Bond bathing suit” that made film ...