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Charles Seltman, a fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge, curator of the Archaeology Museum there and an editor of The Cambridge Ancient History, illustrated a chapter titled "The new woman" in his book Women in Antiquity with a 1950s model wearing an identical bikini against the 4th-century mosaics from Piazza Armerina as part of a sisterhood ...
The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue was invented by Sports Illustrated editor Andre Laguerre in 1964. 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 March and a five-page layout.
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 microkini (or micro bikini) is an extremely minimalist bikini [29] that uses less fabric than a traditional bikini in order to show more skin and create less visible tan lines. They typically have thong-style bottoms and string straps, [ 30 ] covering little more than the nipples and pubic hair. [ 31 ]
[43] [44] He introduced his design four days after the first test of a nuclear weapon at the Bikini Atoll. The newspapers were full of news about it and Reard hoped for the same with his design, hence the name. [45] [46] Through the 1950s, it was thought proper for the lower part of the bikini to come up high enough to cover the navel. From the ...
The outfits worn by fashionable women of during the Belle Époque (1871–1914) were strikingly similar to those worn in the heyday of the fashion pioneer Charles Worth. By the end of the 19th century, the horizons of the fashion industry had broadened, due to the more stable and independent lifestyles of well-off women and the practical ...
Elisabetta Canalis in a pretzel swimsuit (2007). The sling swimsuit is a one-piece swimsuit which is supported by fabric at the neck. Sling swimsuits provide as little coverage (or as much exposure) as, or even less than, a bikini.
Bikini Destinations, which ran between 2003 and 2011, was a US travel show that took bikini-clad anchors to places where bikinis are commonly worn. [120] Bikini Barbershop , released in 2012, was a US reality show featuring female hair stylists at work, wearing only bikinis.