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A swimsuit competition, more commonly now called a bikini contest, is a beauty contest which is judged and ranked while contestants wear a swimsuit, typically a bikini. One of the judging criteria is the physical attractiveness of the contestants. The Big Four international beauty pageants have included examples of such a competition.
Bikini contests are a form of adult entertainment where women compete against each other in bikinis as beauty contests.They can take place in bars, nightclubs, strip clubs, on beaches, and at beauty pageants, as well as during intermissions of boxing or wrestling matches, and at car shows.
A string bikini bottom can have minimal to a maximum coverage of a woman's backside. The term string bikini first came into use in 1974. [13] There is an urban myth that the Brazilian fashion model Rose di Primo created the first string bikini when she had to sew one with insufficient fabric available to her for a photo shoot. [14]
One of the big arguments made by some past winners for getting rid of the swimsuit competition is the unrealistic body standards they feel it sets, leading to contestants doing dangerous things to ...
NEWS: Miss Teen USA to Eliminate Swimsuit Competition Haskell pointed out that the first Miss America in 1921 wore a one-piece. Two-piece suits didn't get introduced until the bikini ban was ...
While the two-piece swimsuit as a design existed in classical antiquity, [6] the modern design first attracted public notice in Paris on July 5, 1946. [7]Operation Crossroads was a nuclear test series at the Bikini Atoll, and the inspiration for the naming of two French swimsuit designs at the time, including the bikini.
"Bikinis don't have an age limit," 47-year-old grandmother and personal trainer Shantea Johnson tells Yahoo Life. Johnson, known as "nana" and "glam-ma" to her six grandchildren, views wearing ...
Réard's string bikini consisted of four triangles made from 30 square inches (194 cm 2) of fabric printed with a newspaper pattern. [ 2 ] When Réard sought a model to wear his design at his press conference, none of the usual models would wear the suit, so he hired 19 year old nude dancer Micheline Bernardini from the Casino de Paris . [ 66 ]