Bikini and The Bomb: A History of Swimwear - The Seamstress of Bloomsbury

By A Mystery Man Writer

150 years ago if you wanted to go to the beach as a woman you would be wearing several layers of cumbersome cotton or flannel just to dip your toes - thankfully things have changed a lot since then, and swimwear is much more liberating for women now than it was all that time ago. But how did we go from wearing a multi-layered swim ensemble to our modern bikinis where sometimes almost nothing is left to the imagination?

The History of the Bikini - TeenyB Bikini Couture

The History of the Bikini - TeenyB Bikini Couture

The Seamstress of Bloomsbury Blog Tagged Second World War

Four triangles of nothing': How the bikini was born 70 years ago - The Globe and Mail

Bikini History

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Bombs over Bikini: The World's First Nuclear - Lerner Publishing Group

History of the bikini - Wikipedia

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