On July 5, 1946, French designer Louis Réard unveils a daring two-piece swimsuit at the Piscine Molitor, a popular swimming pool in Paris. Parisian showgirl Micheline Bernardini modeled the new fashion, which Réard dubbed “bikini,” inspired by a news-making U.S. atomic test that took place off the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean earlier that week.
European women first began wearing two-piece bathing suits that consisted of a halter top and shorts in the 1930s, 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.
In 1946, Western Europeans joyously greeted the first war-free summer in years, and French designers came up with fashions to match the liberated mood of the people. Two French designers, Jacques Heim and Louis Réard, developed competing prototypes of the bikini. Heim called his the “atom” and advertised it as “the world’s smallest bathing suit.” Réard’s swimsuit, which was basically a bra top and two inverted triangles of cloth connected by string, was in fact significantly smaller. Made out of a scant 30 inches of fabric, Réard promoted his creation as “smaller than the world’s smallest bathing suit.” Réard called his creation the bikini, named after the Bikini Atoll.
Flashback: Extreme Beauty Standards of the 1940s
In planning the debut of his new swimsuit, Réard had trouble finding a professional model who would deign to wear the scandalously skimpy two-piece. So he turned to Micheline Bernardini, an exotic dancer at the Casino de Paris, who had no qualms about appearing nearly nude in public. As an allusion to the headlines that he knew his swimsuit would generate, he printed newspaper type across the suit that Bernardini modeled on July 5 at the Piscine Molitor. The bikini was a hit, especially among men, and Bernardini received some 50,000 fan letters.
Before long, bold young women in bikinis were causing a sensation along the Mediterranean coast. Spain and Italy passed measures prohibiting bikinis on public beaches but later capitulated to the changing times when the swimsuit grew into a mainstay of European beaches in the 1950s. Réard’s business soared, and in advertisements he kept the bikini mystique alive by declaring that a two-piece suit wasn’t a genuine bikini “unless it could be pulled through a wedding ring.”
In prudish America, the bikini was successfully resisted until the early 1960s, when a new emphasis on youthful liberation brought the swimsuit en masse to U.S. beaches. It was immortalized by the pop singer Brian Hyland, who sang “Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini” in 1960, by the teenage “beach blanket” movies of Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon, and by the California surfing culture celebrated by rock groups like the Beach Boys. Since then, the popularity of the bikini has only continued to grow.
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Makes me think of Bridgette Barot in her bikini, wow. Though the poor woman aged very badly.
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Women were ready to get naked in public and the men were excited about it. The long slide into moral turpitude picked up speed and a once Christian nation reached out and embraced ruin, forever.
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” John Adams
I miss the good old days when you had a nice little bush to bury your face in and savor that wonderful flavor. Back when women weren’t tattooed, pierced, injected, no fake tits….
As a kid I didn’t even know what was behind the bush until I snagged a Hustler from my dad’s buddy’s welding shop bathroom lol. It was on after that.
Scent of a woman.
Indeed.
So, in your early life section we can pencil in “pervert” and “thief”. Did you ever overcome those character flaws?
Being attracted to women and being seduced by porn is a learning experience few master the lessons of.
Most simply masturbate and never consider the lessons.
Porn is destructive to procreation and healthy relationships.
It’s primary purpose is to corrupt people so that other people can feel justified in murdering them for their gross perversion.
The people doing the murdering today?
Will be corrupted and killed later. By another group which will also he corrupted and killed by the next group.
On and on through history this same acr had been played and replayed.
Which group always promotes perversions for the gentiles?
Funny thing, is the same group which punishes other peoples, engages in the worst perversions among themselves, but for some reason it’s not a sin when a chosenite practices perversion.
Chicks in bikini’s holding hands is sexy !
Just a reminder to certain ladies out there that bikinis like spandex and yoga pants are not a human right.
Bless you for keeping it real.
…and that is how you successfully herd sheep.