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2. Swimsuit - Wikipedia

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   Tankini (also known as two piece) One piece covers the breasts and stomach (like a tank top), the other the crotch and buttocks. Anne Cole (1926–2017), [20] the founder of the brand Anne Cole named after her, was the woman who invented the tankini in 1998. [21] Tank top and pants: Tank top covering pants prevents water parachuting pants off.

3. History of swimwear - Wikipedia

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   The 1929 film Man with a Movie Camera shows Russian women wearing early two-piece swimsuits, which expose their midriff, and a few who are topless. Films of holidaymakers in Germany in the 1930s show women wearing two-piece suits, [19] In 1928, Speedo introduced their racerback silk suit that was optimized to fit the body shape. [20] [21]

4. Tankini - Wikipedia

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   Called by some [citation needed] the first major innovation in women's swimsuits for decades, Cole's two-piece, which blended the 'freedom' of a bikini with the coverage of a one-piece bathing suit, soon captured nearly a third of the swimwear market. [14] Her tankini, first devised by Cole for herself as a young girl, came out in 1998. [15]

5. Bikini variants - Wikipedia

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   A regular bikini is a two-piece swimsuit that together covers the wearer's crotch, buttocks, and breasts. Some bikini designs cover larger portions of the wearer's body while other designs provide minimal coverage. Topless variants are still sometimes considered bikinis, although they are technically not a two-piece swimsuit. [1]

6. Bikini - Wikipedia

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   [49] [50] Heim launched a two-piece swimsuit design in Paris that he called the atome, after the smallest known particle of matter. He announced that it was the "world's smallest bathing suit." [46] [51] Although briefer than the two-piece swimsuits of the 1930s, the bottom of Heim's new two-piece beach costume still covered the wearer's navel.

7. History of the bikini - Wikipedia

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   In 1913, inspired by that breakthrough, the designer Carl Jantzen made the first functional two-piece swimwear, a close-fitting one-piece with shorts on the bottom and short sleeves on top. [40] Silent films such as The Water Nymph (1912) saw Mabel Normand in revealing attire, and this was followed by the daringly dressed Sennett Bathing ...