 "The
Bikini Book"
edited by Mike Evans
Reed International Books, 1996
The summer of 1946 should
be a period in history that every bachelor gives praise to. It is when
the modern bikini came into existence. Named by French designer Louis
Reard after the South Pacific atoll where American held nuclear
bomb tests, the bikini finally gave bachelors a reason to go to the beach.
Things were helped even more by the promotion of the bikini at the Cannes
Film Festival in the 1950's by the likes of Brigitte
Bardot. Soon, every pin-up girl in the world had a cheesecake
photo of themselves in this wonderful bit of swim wear and the bikini was
here to stay. In the 1960's, whole beach going, bikini-wearing counter
cultures sprung up giving such films as "Beach Blanket Bingo" and every
other movie Frankie and Annette were in. In the 70's and 80's less became
more with thongs that made a burlesque stripper's G-string look like a
raincoat. Nowadays the bikini can be see everywhere from the store racks
at Walmart to the runways in Milan.
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