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Before Modern Day Bikini
first began wearing two-piece bathing suits that consisted of a halter top and shorts -
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Bikini Timeline
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Introduction
French designer Louis Reard unveils a daring two-piece swimsuit -
Getting Popular
Spain and Italy passed measures prohibiting bikinis on public beaches but later capitulated to the changing times when the swimsuit grew into a mainstay of European beaches -
Getting Popular in America
It was immortalized by the pop singer Brian Hyland, who sang “Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini” in 1960, by the teenage “beach blanket” movies of Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon, and by the California surfing culture celebrated by rock groups like the Beach Boys -
Brining to America
In prudish America, the bikini was successfully resisted until the early 1960s, when a new emphasis on youthful liberation brought the swimsuit en masse to U.S. beaches -
Growing
The bikini keeps getting poplular all around the world. -
Today
Today, the bikini has gotten very relviling. It can come is all different shapes and sizes; to having many holes, to having none.
