Navel crisis
Gradually, some photographers and models dared to photograph wearing bikinis before 1946. From here, Réard built his own company around the new design.
However, the bikini's penetration of societal barriers to European shores proceeded slowly, not to mention the resistance to the "obscene" invention in the post-war United States.
Many commentators condemned the theme, and many communities banned it.
In 1950, American swimsuit mogul Fred Cole was interviewed by Time magazine to comment on the bikini. He said that he felt nothing but contempt for such clothes because they were designed for the petite women of France, adding that French girls had short legs, so they raised their swimsuits at the sides to make Their legs look longer.
But celebrities began their own navel maneuvers. Six years after Bernardini wore a bikini, Bridget Bardot starred in "The Girl in the Bikini." Then, in 1962, Ursula Andress emerged from the surf in "Dr. No" wearing a bikini while... The role of James Bond girl.
The great spread
It was the jet age that popularized the culture of skimpy clothing, as the wealthy began to move in and out of the Riviera, bringing new standards of beachwear to beaches around the world.
The spread of swimming pools also had a major role in the spread of the bikini. It gave women a secluded place to test out new clothes, and the bikini soon became ubiquitous.
In 1964, the first sports magazine cover featured a girl in a white bikini, and then in 1967, Time magazine wrote that 65% of young women were now wearing it.
The popularity of the bikini was boosted by its appearance in contemporary films such as How To Stuff a Wild Bikini, in which actresses and models would pump out their equipment while filming bikini scenes in order to appear more beautiful.
And in the 1970s, supermodels such as Sheryl Teagues appeared, who had the perfect athletic figure that is still in vogue today.
The emergence of this ideal has led many women to wonder: Who exactly should she wear a bikini with?
In the 1960s, Emily Post decreed that it was for perfect figures only, and for the very young, but since then a number of swimwear designers, most notably Malia Mills, have encouraged women of all ages and body types to wear bikinis.
When faced with the question of who shouldn't wear a bikini, swimsuit designer Norma Kamali said anyone with a stomach. But professional beach volleyball player Gabrielle Reyes said that only confidence can make a woman fit to wear it.
From engineering to bikini design
The inventor of the two-piece swimsuit known as the "bikini" Louis Rard was originally a mechanical engineer and ran his mother's lingerie store. Although his invention of the bikini at the time represented a revolution in the world of fashion, this invention is not new. In the Roman era, women used to wear a piece that covered the chest and another that covered the lower part of their bodies.
"The first atomic bomb"
Lewis named his new creation "Kenny", after an island in the Pacific Ocean, in which the United States of America conducted experiments to test the atomic bomb in the same year and month of Louis' invention of the bikini (July 1946) and a few days before it was presented to the public. And the people of the island return the name Peking to "the country of many coconuts". However, Louis chose the name "Bikini" for his new invention, indicating that it was an invention similar to the "atomic bomb" and called the bikini the term "the first atomic bomb."