Do you know the history of the bikini?
The history of the bikini
Before 1946, it was just a place name—the name of the island on which President Truman approved the nuclear bomb test. In the first half of that year, women only dared to swim to the beach wearing a stand-up collar and flat-footed "swimsuit" tightly wrapped around the body. The beach scene was dark.
Before that, the swimsuit was conservative, covering most of the body. Reid's design exposes most of the upper abdomen. Since it was almost completely nude after wearing it, many professional fashion models in Paris at that time were afraid of this kind of swimsuit. However, a stripper named Michal Bernardini bravely challenged traditional ideas. She put on a bikini by a swimming pool for reporters to take photos, and another bikini was worn on a plastic model. In fact, this swimsuit named "bikini" really shocked the world. The Mediterranean countries regarded it as a plague, Italy banned it, the Spanish Coast Guard expelled people wearing bikinis, and even the United States had arrested people for bikinis.
Australian designer Paula Stafford introduced bikinis to Australia in 1952 and caused an uproar. Beach patrol John Moffat immediately caught a model wearing a short swimsuit designed by Paula. "Too short!" he yelled hoarsely as he escorted the model away from the beach. Paula was not deterred. She asked the other five girls to put on bikinis, notified the local newspaper and invited the mayor, a pastor and the police chief to the scene. As a result, nothing happened, but she achieved amazing publicity effects.
At that time, bikinis were only popular in Europe and did not reach the United States until 15 years later. When one of Hollywood’s most famous stars, Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn Monroe) wearing a bikini, the movie screen and artistic photos appeared in various fashion magazines, people began to look at this sexy swimsuit for the first time. . In the following decades of the 20th century, Brigitte Bardot's "Girl in Bikini" was released in France. Bikini swimsuits fascinated the French and became fashionable attire; a song by Brian Hyland "Little Bikini with Yellow Polka Dots" makes bikinis a household name; according to statistics, British women spend about 45 million pounds on bikinis each year, and French bikinis account for about half of the female swimwear market. .
Bikini without a bra designed by Rudy in 1964-Beach Bikini Beauty
(Topless suit) fired at the fortress of public ethics. Cole introduced a swimsuit that covered the chest and waist with fishing nets. What followed was the unstructured swimwear of the 70s and 80s. These swimsuits cover almost nothing except the lower body. Swimming without a shirt and naked swimming have begun to appear, although the number of people who adopt this swimming method is still very small.
In 1992, Cole developed an inflatable bikini (TopSecret) based on the popular prediction that "breast enhancement will return". In 1995, with the introduction of high-tech materials into the fashion industry, bikinis once again became the favorite design objects of many international fashion design masters. The bikinis with high-tech materials and retro styles to reproduce the image of the 1950s, the bikinis decorated with rhinestones, and ties Strap bikinis and more have appeared one after another. In addition, there are bikinis and topless ones that use belts instead of fabric to wrap around three points on the human body.
The development experience of swimwear is closely related to people's conceptual changes and social culture. No matter what kind of "treatment" it received at the beginning, swimwear has become an irreplaceable part of the clothing industry.
