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The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: Dixie*Darling on July 05, 2008, 07:33:24 PM
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July 5, 1946
Bikini introduced
On July 5, 1946, French designer Louis Reard unveils a daring two-piece swimsuit at the Piscine Molitor, a popular swimming pool in Paris. Parisian showgirl Micheline Bernardini modeled the new fashion, which Reard dubbed "bikini," inspired by a news-making U.S. atomic test that took place off the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean earlier that week.
European women first began wearing two-piece bathing suits that consisted of a halter top and shorts in the 1930s, but only a sliver of the midriff was revealed and the navel was vigilantly covered. In the United States, the modest two-piece made its appearance during World War II, when wartime rationing of fabric saw the removal of the skirt panel and other superfluous material. Meanwhile, in Europe, fortified coastlines and Allied invasions curtailed beach life during the war, and swimsuit development, like everything else non-military, came to a standstill.
In 1946, Western Europeans joyously greeted the first war-free summer in years, and French designers came up with fashions to match the liberated mood of the people. Two French designers, Jacques Heim and Louis Reard, developed competing prototypes of the bikini. Heim called his the "atom" and advertised it as "the world's smallest bathing suit." Reard's swimsuit, which was basically a bra top and two inverted triangles of cloth connected by string, was in fact significantly smaller. Made out of a scant 30 inches of fabric, Reard promoted his creation as "smaller than the world's smallest bathing suit." Reard called his creation the bikini, named after the Bikini Atoll.
In planning the debut of his new swimsuit, Reard had trouble finding a professional model who would deign to wear the scandalously skimpy two-piece. So he turned to Micheline Bernardini, an exotic dancer at the Casino de Paris, who had no qualms about appearing nearly nude in public. As an allusion to the headlines that he knew his swimsuit would generate, he printed newspaper type across the suit that Bernardini modeled on July 5 at the Piscine Molitor. The bikini was a hit, especially among men, and Bernardini received some 50,000 fan letters.
Before long, bold young women in bikinis were causing a sensation along the Mediterranean coast. 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 in the 1950s. Reard's business soared, and in advertisements he kept the bikini mystique alive by declaring that a two-piece suit wasn't a genuine bikini "unless it could be pulled through a wedding ring."
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. 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. Since then, the popularity of the bikini has only continued to grow.
With video goodness: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=VideoArticle&id=6949
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now, THERE is a date to celebrate. :-)
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I'm sure men everywhere thank them :naughty: :-)
(http://i30.tinypic.com/2czo6f9.jpg)
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I'm sure men everywhere thank them :naughty: :-)
(http://i30.tinypic.com/2czo6f9.jpg)
If my ass looked that good in one, I'd REALLY have something to celebrate! :lmao:
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I'm sure men everywhere thank them :naughty: :-)
(http://i30.tinypic.com/2czo6f9.jpg)
If my ass looked that good in one, I'd REALLY have something to celebrate! :lmao:
depends on which butt you are talking about. :-)
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I'm sure men everywhere thank them :naughty: :-)
(http://i30.tinypic.com/2czo6f9.jpg)
If my ass looked that good in one, I'd REALLY have something to celebrate! :lmao:
depends on which butt you are talking about. :-)
We need your guidance, WE. :-)
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Great picture...
When did the women of CC have a meetup? :bow:
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I'm sure men everywhere thank them :naughty: :-)
(http://i30.tinypic.com/2czo6f9.jpg)
If my ass looked that good in one, I'd REALLY have something to celebrate! :lmao:
depends on which butt you are talking about. :-)
We need your guidance, WE. :-)
the girl (standing) second from the left is simply awesome. :wink:
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Great picture...
When did the women of CC have a meetup? :bow:
I'm one of the short ones. :lmao:
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I'm sure men everywhere thank them :naughty: :-)
(http://i30.tinypic.com/2czo6f9.jpg)
If my ass looked that good in one, I'd REALLY have something to celebrate! :lmao:
depends on which butt you are talking about. :-)
We need your guidance, WE. :-)
the girl (standing) second from the left is simply awesome. :wink:
I think it is kinda funny that the girls on the left are all average to short and the girls on the right are like--volleyball players.
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If my ass looked that good in one, I'd REALLY have something to celebrate! :lmao:
depends on which butt you are talking about. :-)
The one you can bounce a quarter off of and have it bounce back to ya!
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I'm sure men everywhere thank them :naughty: :-)
(http://i30.tinypic.com/2czo6f9.jpg)
If my ass looked that good in one, I'd REALLY have something to celebrate! :lmao:
depends on which butt you are talking about. :-)
We need your guidance, WE. :-)
the girl (standing) second from the left is simply awesome. :wink:
I think it is kinda funny that the girls on the left are all average to short and the girls on the right are like--volleyball players.
yeah, it's not like you girlz hang out in cliques or anything. :-)
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If my ass looked that good in one, I'd REALLY have something to celebrate! :lmao:
depends on which butt you are talking about. :-)
The one you can bounce a quarter off of and have it bounce back to ya!
look, a tight butt is nothing compared to an expansive mind.
(did I just say that? :o :-) )
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the girl (standing) second from the left is simply awesome. :wink:
That pose is commonly referred to as the "side ass" pic, not to be confused with the famous "side boob" pic, which of course is visible boobage from the side.
IMHO she's just a bit too "cheeky"! :tongue:
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the girl (standing) second from the left is simply awesome. :wink:
That pose is commonly referred to as the "side ass" pic, not to be confused with the famous "side boob" pic, which of course is visible boobage from the side.
IMHO she's just a bit too "cheeky"! :tongue:
I think her greater gluteals are accentuated because she is standing on one leg. not that I am overthinking her, or anything. :-)
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The one you can bounce a quarter off of and have it bounce back to ya!
I've bounced a few quarters, but I don't think I've ever had one come back to me. I dunno what kind of girls you're hanging around. :uhsure:
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The one you can bounce a quarter off of and have it bounce back to ya!
I've bounced a few quarters, but I don't think I've ever had one come back to me. I dunno what kind of girls you're hanging around. :uhsure:
I've never made the attempt. my quarters are always in my pants, and they are usually in a different room. :-)
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the girl (standing) second from the left is simply awesome. :wink:
That pose is commonly referred to as the "side ass" pic, not to be confused with the famous "side boob" pic, which of course is visible boobage from the side.
IMHO she's just a bit too "cheeky"! :tongue:
Hey, I'm cheeky. :hammer: :-)
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Hey, I'm cheeky. :hammer: :-)
Hi ya Cheeky!
I'm Mile-A-More! :rotf:
as in ... looks better a mile or more away!
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Hey, I'm cheeky. :hammer: :-)
Hi ya Cheeky!
I'm Mile-A-More! :rotf:
as in ... looks better a mile or more away!
:rofl:
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I'm truly a man born before his time.........women are wearing next to nothing now.... shaving places they used to not shave.......and I'm to old to get to fully enjoy it. :banghead: :bird: world.
Oh well. There's always dirty old man mode.......when that's gone, I'm outta here.