Bikini and The Bomb: A History of Swimwear - The Seamstress of

150 years ago if you wanted to go to the beach as a woman you would be wearing several layers of cumbersome cotton or flannel just to dip your toes - thankfully things have changed a lot since then, and swimwear is much more liberating for women now than it was all that time ago. But how did we go from wearing a multi-layered swim ensemble to our modern bikinis where sometimes almost nothing is left to the imagination?

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Bikini Atoll Revolutionized the Swimsuit 70 Years Ago

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Red Cheeky Bikini Bottom, Bathing Suit Bottom, Aphrodite Cheeky Bikini Bottom in Cherry Bomb - Canada

Four triangles of nothing': How the bikini was born 70 years ago - The Globe and Mail

What is a swimsuit or beachwear that makes everyone go 'Wow!'? - Quora

History of the Bikini - Bikini Atoll - Origin of Two Piece Swimsuits

Bathing Bunnies

1950s Swimwear – Ian Drummond Vintage

History of the Bikini - Bikini Atoll - Origin of Two Piece Swimsuits

History of the bikini, 76 years of a bomb that has not yet exploded

History of the bikini - Wikipedia

How the Summer of Atomic Bomb Testing Turned the Bikini Into a Phenomenon, At the Smithsonian