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