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by Answer Rabbit on April 13th, 2006

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When did bikinis become socially acceptable?

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  • by PommyMommy on April 13th, 2006

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    Only by the end of the 1950s does the basic premise of bikini, the navel, gain public acceptance in America. Once the belly button is out in the open, the challenge of the 1960s is to continue to lower the waistline. This was a slow process, migrating from pin-up girls to public beaches in increments of millimeters per year, according to www.bikiniscience.com. The 1960 hit "Itsy-Bitsy, Teeny-Weenie, Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini" kicked off the decade of the bikini. In 1962, Sports Illustrated began its' Swimsuit Special, and movies such as Beach Blanket Bingo and How to Stuff a Wild Bikini appeared. But at the same time that Life magazine is previewing the European future to America, television is not so kind to the bikini spirit. On television the navel remains banned, and on the TV program I Dream of Jeannie the genie Barbara Eden, is not permitted to bare her belly button. The ban on belly buttons does not end until Cher bares her navel in the 1970s and the era of Laugh In.
    None the less it is the bikini which wins in the end. The shrinking bikini is lead by the young and the brave, but it adopted by women of all ages, with more conservative women following years later

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  • by jswagger on January 10th, 2009

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    The modern bikini first appered on French beaches in 1947. The Romans also wore a two-piece swimming garment, though likely it wasn't also named after Bikini Atoll, famous for it's nuclear testing and, according to Louis Réard,the engineer responsible for the modern garment, having a similar effect on men's minds as splitting the atom. (I've never suffered radiation poisoning from bikinis. Clearly further testing is be required!)

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