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From the 60s onward women's bathing suits have morphed from trend to trend, but the classic silhouettes of the one piece and the bikini have stood the test of time. Show comments Advertisement
"French girls have short legs," he explained, "Swimsuits have to be hiked up at the sides to make their legs look longer." RĂ©ard himself described it as a two-piece bathing suit which "reveals everything about a girl except for her mother's maiden name." [40] Even Esther Williams commented, "A bikini is a thoughtless act."
From around 1810 to 1815. The history of swimwear traces the changes in the styles of men's and women's swimwear over time and between cultures, and touches on the social, religious and legal attitudes to swimming and swimwear. In classical antiquity and in most cultures, swimming was either in the nude or the swimmer would merely strip to ...
A woman wearing a black bikini at a beach in 2009 A bikini is a two-piece swimsuit primarily worn by women that features one piece on top that covers the breasts , and a second piece on the bottom: the front covering the pelvis but usually exposing the navel , and the back generally covering the intergluteal cleft and some or all of the buttocks .
Library of Congress. 1902. This image from Detroit Photographic shows a Coney Island beach in 1902. Clearly, people wore a lot more clothing to the beach in those days, including suits and ties ...
Major stylistic variations and an array of spinoff styles include string bikini, monokini or numokini (single, top part missing), tankini ( tank top, bikini bottom), camikini ( camisole top and bikini bottom), hikini or hipkini, thong, slingshot or sling bikini (actually a one-piece swimsuit ), minimini, teardrop, seekini (transparent bikini ...
Road Trip, 1908. This photo depicts Alice H. Ramsey, the first woman to drive the entire length of the United States from coast to coast. The 22-year-old made the 3,800-mile trek from Manhattan to ...
Nude swimming is the practice of swimming without clothing, whether in natural bodies of water or in swimming pools. A colloquial term for nude swimming is "skinny dipping". In both British and American English, to swim means "to move through water by moving the body or parts of the body". [ 1] In British English, bathing also means swimming ...
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