| When women want to get people's attention on | | | | Bikini Atoll is in the Pacific and is one of |
| the beach, they usually wear bikinis. Bikinis | | | | the islands that make up the Marshall |
| or two-pieces are a type of women's swimsuit | | | | Islands. A few days before the fashion, they |
| that has two separate parts. One part covers | | | | were site of a nuclear weapon tests. The |
| the breasts while the other part covers the | | | | reaction to these bikinis was as strong as a |
| groin. There is an uncovered area of skin | | | | nuclear bomb. It should be noted that women |
| between the two parts. The shapes of the two | | | | in Paris were wearing something like bikinis |
| parts usually look women's underwear. The | | | | before the French engineer and French fashion |
| lower parts of bikinis can range from thongs | | | | designer invented them. You could see |
| or g-strings to the more modest modest | | | | pictures of women wearing bikinis in the July |
| square-cut shorts. Bikinis have been worn by | | | | 16, 1945 issue of Life. The article |
| women for sports as seen on Greek urns and | | | | accompanying the photos called them French |
| paintings, dated as early as 1400 BC. Modern | | | | bathing suits. They couldn't be called |
| bikinis were invented by a French engineer | | | | bikinis yet because the Bikini Atoll nuclear |
| named Louis Reared and a fashion designer | | | | tests had not happened yet. Despite not |
| named Jacque Heim in Paris in 1946. They | | | | having the name yet, the Parisian women in |
| presented their new invention at a fashion | | | | the photos clearly wearing bikinis in the |
| show on July 5 1946 at the Piscine Molitor in | | | | same style and coverage that bikinis usually |
| Paris. They were bikinis with g-string backs. | | | | have. |
| They were named after the Bikini Atoll. The | | | | |