What is a bikini?

Bikini (called "bikini" in Hong Kong) generally refers to the swimsuit worn by women when swimming, that is, bikini swimsuit.

The name of Bikini Island originally refers to Bikini Island, an uninhabited island in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean. 2006 is the 60th birthday of bikini. In the past half century, bikini has always been a symbol of women's fashion clothes. Bikini swimsuit is considered as the greatest "invention" of the world clothing industry in the 20th century.

Automotive engineers make bikinis.

1946 On June 30th, an atomic bomb exploded in Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. 18 days later, a Frenchman named Louis Rilde introduced a bra top and briefs swimsuit. That day, he hired a call girl as a model to show his work in a public swimming pool. A week later, bikinis were all the rage in Europe.

The model was frightened and the stripper tried on her first bikini.

Before 1946, bikini was just a place name-the name of the island approved by President Truman for nuclear bomb test explosion. In the first half of that year, women only dared to swim by the sea in a "swimsuit" with a stand-up collar and flat feet tightly wrapped around their bodies. The scenery on the beach is very dark.

On18th day after the atomic bomb exploded in Bikini Island, Marshall Islands, Luis Rilde, a Frenchman, introduced a swimsuit consisting of three pieces of cloth and four straps in Paris on July 1946. This bathing suit with the smallest body area in the world protects the breasts through a bra, and its back is almost naked except for the rope. The crotch of briefs should be raised as high as possible to expose the buttocks, legs and crotch to the maximum extent. It is simple, small and exquisite, and it takes less than 30 inches of cloth to knead into a ball and put it into a matchbox.

Before that, swimsuits were conservative and covered most of the body. Rilde's design exposed most of the upper abdomen. The swimsuit is made of fabric printed with newspaper content, and the shrewd designer hinted that his bold design would occupy a large number of pages in Le Monde. Because almost naked, many professional fashion models in Paris were afraid of this swimsuit at that time. However, a stripper named Michal Bernardini bravely challenged traditional ideas, wearing a bikini beside a swimming pool for reporters to take pictures, while another bikini was put on a plastic model.

Bikini has brought trouble to beaches all over the world.

The appearance of bikini shocked the world like an atomic bomb. Ingenious Rilde took advantage of the influence of the atomic bomb explosion in Bikini Island and decisively named the two-piece three-point swimsuit "Bikini", thus making a fortune. Although this new style caused a lot of controversy, it was welcomed by "naughty girls decorating the beach" in France. After the early sensation subsided, bikinis quickly replaced one-piece swimsuits and became swimsuits worn by women on the beach and swimming.

In fact, this swimsuit named "Bikini" really shocked the whole world. Countries along the Mediterranean regarded it as a plague, Italy banned it, the Spanish coast guard expelled people wearing bikinis, and even the United States arrested people for bikinis.

Australian designer Paula Stafford introduced bikini to Australia in 1952, which caused an uproar. John Moffat, a beach patrolman, immediately caught a model wearing a short bathing suit designed by Paula. "It's too short!" He shouted at the top of his lungs and escorted the model off the beach. Paula was not intimidated. She put five other girls in bikinis, informed the local newspaper and invited the mayor, a priest and the police chief to the scene. As a result, nothing happened, but she achieved amazing publicity results.

Swimmers were arrested for "debauchery" swimsuits once banned by law.

Since the Middle Ages, people have used a series of reasons to prevent women from swimming or even taking a bath. /kloc-in the 0 th and 7 th centuries, some medical-related bathing methods increased women's bathing opportunities. But women must wear ankle-thick shirts and a hat to maintain their dignity. As soon as they get out of the water, the waiter will dress them in robes. Until the19th century, people still wore this kind of swimsuit.

/kloc-in the 0/9th century, shirt-style swimsuits were replaced by knee-length swimsuits. Women still wear pants and stockings under this bathing suit. They are wearing swimming caps and lace-up slippers similar to ballet shoes. In this way, swimwear finally entered the fashion magazines and store catalogues in the 1980s of 19. However, the skirt of the new women's swimsuit is very wide, and the wet weight can reach 30 kg.

From 1870 to 1900, it is a turning point in the history of women's swimwear. The style remains the same, but it is getting simpler and simpler, while women still wear corsets under swimsuits-a one-piece garment with sleeves and leggings, similar to children's pajamas. Some governments strictly prohibit wearing "lewd" clothes through laws, stipulating that swimsuits must cover the human body from neck to knees. Some women were fined for not wearing stockings, shoes or long skirts.

Women's swimming first became an Olympic event in 19 12. Fanny Drucker, wearing a sleeveless one-piece swimsuit with half-length trouser legs, is among the best in many activities. Australian-born female swimmer Annette Kellerman (1887- 1975) also broke the routine. She was arrested by the police in Boston on 1907 for wearing a bold one-piece swimsuit.

The more you cross the fire, you don't wear it at all.

By the 1930s, the style of non-competitive swimsuits had undergone revolutionary changes. Straps replace sleeves, legs are getting shorter and shorter, and neckline is getting lower and lower. The most fundamental innovation of women's swimwear is the appearance of bikini. As soon as the bikini craze spread, it hit the popular culture and moral concepts all over the world with an avalanche.

Bikini was only popular in Europe at that time, and it didn't reach the United States until 15. When Marilyn Monroe, one of Hollywood's most famous stars, appeared in various fashion magazines with bikini movie pictures and artistic photos, people first began to look at this sexy swimsuit with special respect. With the help of bikini, Marilyn Monroe became the sexy goddess in Hollywood, and bikini became popular all over the world because of its association with Monroe's name. In the following decades of the 20th century, Bridget Albert Batteux's Bikini Girl was released in France, and bikinis fascinated the French and became fashionable clothes. Brian Hyland's song Little Bikini with Yellow Dots made bikini a household name. By 1969, American Life magazine has published a special introduction to bikinis, and the negative image of bikinis has disappeared. According to recent statistics, British women spend about 45 million pounds on bikinis every year, and French bikini sales account for about half of the women's swimsuit market.

1964 Rudy's topless dress opened fire on the fortress of public ethics. Cole introduced a bathing suit with a fishing net covering the chest and waist.

Then there were unstructured swimsuits in the 1970s and 1980s. These swimsuits have almost nothing to cover except the lower body. Naked swimming and topless swimming began to appear, although only a few people took this kind of swimming.

The return of the 1990s made hips reappear in women's swimsuits.

In the 1990s, the style of swimwear became cautious again, covering more body area, and some original sewing methods and posture adjustment methods were adopted again. 1989, Jerry Hall, a model, launched a series of swimsuits, aiming at "returning her hips to women's swimsuits". From 65438 to 0992, Cole Company developed an inflatable TopSecret according to the popular prediction that breast enhancement will return. From 65438 to 0995, with the high-tech materials entering the fashion world, bikini has once again become the favorite design object of many international fashion designers. Bikini with high-tech materials and retro style to reproduce the image of the 1950s, bikini decorated with rhinestones, and bikini with straps appeared one after another. In addition, there are bikinis that use belts instead of cloth to wrap the human body at three points, topless bikinis, mini bikinis and a bikini with only three small strips of cloth fixed in the cover, which is called "savage".

The development experience of swimwear is closely related to people's concept changes and social culture. No matter what kind of "treatment" it received at the beginning, swimwear has now become an irreplaceable part of the clothing industry.

Link: In BC 1600, someone came up with a "bikini".

The inventors of bikini were two Frenchmen-Jacques Heim and Louis Riedel. But they are not the first people to think of bikinis. As early as BC 1600, there were murals of bikini-style swimsuits. Heim is a female fashion designer from Cannes, France. She designed a very small swimsuit and named it Atome Bomb. She rented a plane to smoke and write in the air to promote her design. The plane wrote in the air: "Atom-the smallest swimsuit in the world." Three weeks later, mechanical engineer Rilde also wrote in the air by plane: "Bikini-smaller than the smallest bathing suit in the world."