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Only about 40 years before the first bikini appeared in 1946, women piled on hats and yards of fabric at Florida beaches until one-piece knitted suits appeared in the 1920s.
The two-piece swimsuit was unveiled on 5 July 1946.
WAY BACK WHEN for Friday, June 3, 2022 1888, the poem "Casey at the Bat", by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, was first published in the "San Francisco Daily Examiner".
ABSENT FROM THE FIRST RANK in modernist art histories, Sonia Delaunay occupies a prime place in narratives of twentieth-century textile design and fashion.1 A current retrospective calls that long-standing evaluation into question. Boldly redefining its subject as an “avant-gardist, entrepreneur and commercially minded businesswoman”—descriptors that reverberate richly today—the show at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark, foregrounds its revisionist goals. From the outset, deep-rooted hierarchies segregating the fine and applied arts—hierarchies that Delaunay he...
Illustration by Rachel Idzerda The bikini turns 75 on July 5—officially recognized as National Bikini Day—just a few months before I’ll open birthday cards that feature bad jokes about turning 70. The ubiquitous style, not unlike the garb worn for exercise in Ancient Rome and as early as 5600 B.C., made its grand entrance in 1946 at a swimming pool in Paris. French auto engineer Louis Réard designed it and named it, inspired by the nuclear bomb tests in Bikini Atoll, certain that his invention would be equally explosive. Lest his brainchild be confused with any variations, he defined t...