Hailed as the first major innovation in women's swimsuit design in several decades, the two-piece tankini blended the freedom of a bikini with the more modest coverage of a one-piece bathing suit, and quickly captured nearly a third of the swimwear market.

In 1913, inspired by that breakthrough, the designer Carl Jantzen made the first functional two-piece swimwear, a close-fitting one-piece with shorts on the bottom and short sleeves on top. [40] Silent films such as The Water Nymph (1912) saw Mabel Normand in revealing attire, and this was followed by the daringly dressed Sennett Bathing ...

2010年3月3日 · 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...

2020年9月24日 · The design of the bikini is credited to two separate designers who introduced the revolutionary garment at the same time. Jacques Heim, a French fashion designer, created a minimalist two-piece swimming garment in May 1946, called the Atome. Heim’s Atome featured a bra-like top and bottoms which covered the bottom and navel.

2016年7月5日 · Two-piece swimsuits did exist by then, but they mostly covered up the belly button until July 5, 1946, when 19-year-old French model and dancer Micheline Bernardini debuted the four fabric...

2024年7月5日 · Louis Réard designed the first two-piece bathing suit where the bottoms cut below the navel. French exotic dancer Micheline Bernardini was hired to wear the bikini in front of...

From their first public appearance in the mid-nineteenth century, bathing suits, both one- and two-piece, were constructed of wool, cotton, and less frequently, terrycloth. By the late 1930s, bathing suit manufacturers began taking advantage of new developments in fabric technology when Lastex and nylon, a quick-drying elasticized fabric, were ...

2017年7月5日 · Enter Micheline Bernardini, a French dancer who agreed to wear the bikini in a photo shoot. She wore a string two-piece with a newspaper print pattern for a fashion show at a Parisian swimming...

The beginnings of the first two piece Bikini were also on the horizon with just a piece of the sides of the swimsuit cut out to reveal some skin. The separated two piece suit came about in the late 1930s featuring a high waisted skirt or shorts and bra-like top.

2018年7月7日 · The modern swimsuit, however, was first introduced to the press on 5 July 1946 as automotive designer and lingerie factory owner Louis Réard’s riposte to Jacques Heim’s two-piece ‘atome’ swimsuit. Two-pieces first appeared in the 1930s and, although too indecent to be worn in public, had become more common in America during the Second ...