Things that keep getting smaller... Bikini evolution in 120 years.

[marylander1940]

[bigvalboy]

Yes smaller, less fabric, but more expensive...

[maninsoma]

1. Is there a counterpart video showing a hot man modeling swimwear over time?

 

2. It isn't really accurate to call this the evolution of the bikini since the bikini wasn't introduced until 1946. The earlier swimsuits shown were just that -- swimsuits, not bikinis.

[marylander1940]

Yes smaller, less fabric, but more expensive...

 

And in different patterns too... hard to keep up.

[marylander1940]

1. Is there a counterpart video showing a hot man modeling swimwear over time?

 

2. It isn't really accurate to call this the evolution of the bikini since the bikini wasn't introduced until 1946. The earlier swimsuits shown were just that -- swimsuits, not bikinis.

 

The article used the work "bikini", I guess it should used the word female swimsuit... We all get the message anyways.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikini

 

The name for the bikini design was coined in 1946 by Parisisan engineer Louis Réard, the inventor of the bikini. He named the swimsuit after Bikini Atoll, where testing on the atomic bomb was taking place. Fashion designer Jacques Heim, also from Paris, invented a similar design in the same year. Due to its controversial and revealing design, the bikini was slow to be adopted. In many countries it was banned from beaches and public places. The Holy See declared the design sinful. While still considered risqué the bikini gradually became a part of popular culture when filmstars like Brigitte Bardot, Raquel Welch, Ursula Andress and others began wearing them on public beaches and in film.

 

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[+ quoththeraven]

Bikinis date from the 40s. The generic term is "two-piece."

[marylander1940]

Bikinis date from the 40s. The generic term is "two-piece."

 

What do you like to wear?

[+ quoththeraven]

I've only ever owned one bikini, and that was ages ago, but I've gotten tired of one-piece tanks, so I just bought the pieces to a tankini -- swim mini skirt with attached panty and a halter top with a low neckline but no exposed midriff. No one needs to see my midriff bulge, amirite?

 

Speaking of, it's a challenge to find good-fitting tops when you're a 42C and refuse to wear underwire. (I hate wires poking me in the chest or ribs.) Almost as much of a challenge as finding swimsuits was back when I was a 34 nearly A and needed lining and padding to prevent nipples from showing through.