July 5 marks National Bikini Day, celebrating 73 years since its invention in Fashion houses had begun to use rationing as an excuse to redesign the swimsuit, using less fabric and revealing more flesh. As a result in the s the midriff was exposed for the first time and the swimsuit began to get smaller in size and bigger in stature. His designs arrived with a bang, four days after explosive nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll, and the rest as they say is history. On July 11 , Micheline became the first women to wear a bikini, during a press show in Paris. The bikini was so small it could fit into a match box and women would never look the same on the beach again.
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A bikini is typically a women's two-piece swimsuit featuring two triangles of fabric on top, similar to a bra and covering the woman's breasts , and two triangles of fabric on the bottom, the front covering the pelvis but exposing the navel, and the back covering the buttocks. In May , Parisian fashion designer Jacques Heim released a two-piece swimsuit design that he named the Atome. His skimpy design was risque, exposing the wearer's navel and much of her buttocks. No runway model would wear it, so he hired a nude dancer , Micheline Bernardini, from the Casino de Paris to model it at a review of swimsuit fashions. Due to its controversial and revealing design, the bikini was accepted very slowly by the public.
Evidence of bikini -style women's clothing has been found as early as BC, and the history of the bikini can be traced back to that era. Illustrations of women wearing bikini-like garments during competitive athletic events in the Roman era have been found in several locations, the most famous of which is at Villa Romana del Casale. It modeled by Micheline Bernardini , on July 5, , the name for his design borrowing from the Bikini Atoll , where post-war testing on the atomic bomb were taking place.
In my life, I have maybe managed to post half a bikini selfie on Instagram. There is nothing obligatory about a poolside selfie. But we fill our phones with photos. In Malta I almost dropped my phone off a balcony as I leaned out to post something on Instagram.