Girls in Bikini 1960-1970
London, England, United Kingdom - Girls posing in bikini's during a fashion show. According to the official version, the modern bikini was invented by French engineer Louis Rekard and fashion designer Jacques Heim in Paris in 1946 and introduced on July 5 at a fashion show at Piscine Molitor in Paris. It was a string bikini with a g-string back. It was named after Bikini Atoll, the site of nuclear weapon tests a few days earlier in the Marshall Islands, on the reasoning that the burst of excitement it would cause would be like the nuclear device
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13311713
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47102888
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(c) Keystone Press Agency/Keystone USA via ZUMAPRESS.com/Mary Evans
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