Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Just An Excuse For Gratuitous Sexism You Perv




















Well no actually. Today is the sixtieth birthday of the modern bikini which was invented by French engineer Louis Reard and fashion designer Jacques Heim and introduced to the world in Paris on 5 July 1946. Apparently women in Paris were wearing bikinis one year before the bikini was "invented," a fact documented with pictures in the July 16, 1945 issue of Life Magazine.

Mrs Miggins above is modelling the brazilian mini set.

3 comments:

Span Ows said...

hmmmm...lovely

microkitten.com?...found that BY ACCIDENT DID YOU? ;-)

I wa squite subdued compared to some of my posts, the links to Brigitte Bardott and Rachel Welch are only the film posters but there were several other more
'appropriate' pictures....

Paul said...

Yes Span, I googled 'Bikini Pictures' and it seemed the best one on the first two pages (or should I say the most appropriate for a blog!)

Gavin Corder said...

You only looked at two pages? Blimey I would call that very cursory research...

Now for the Connoisseur I give you a collector's item:

Bikini