Biography of the Bikini

The bomb on me

July 5, 1946, the usual cliché would modern man increasingly emancipated and away from that common decency that in theory (much in theory) would instead enveloped on themselves the past civilizations, victims not known what repressive philosophies. And also in the field of clothing this opinionated attitude, infused with contemporary and enlightenment, Prosopopoeia is reflected in the false belief that he had discovered the first certain clothes especially daring or just particularly comfortable. This is the case of bikinis, behind the façade of two pieces used as flag of liberation, cela instead a long history. So that you can safely observe, perhaps on a standard Handbook of art history (and maybe trying the notable Sicilian mosaics of Piazza Armerina), Seraphic hosts ladies intent on exercise or to be nice in their spacious bathroom wearing nothing more than two skimpy pieces of cloth. Indeed, appeared for the first time during the Roman imperial period (1st-2nd century AD), the bikini, from what has been learned in the historical recognition made from a magazine like "Focus" didn't need to swim, because at the time you swam naked. Nor needed for sunbathing on the beach, practice become usual several centuries later. Apparently the bikini was mainly used for athletics, dance and gymnastics in schools ". Anyway, to the modern conception of this garment it was not until 1946 when, in France, the designer Louis Réard presents a collection of swimwear in a model that is the precursor, the prototype of what we know it today. Renamed template, just to give an idea of the effect (desired) the garment could arouse, none other than "atome". But it also happens that that year the United States blew up in the Pacific, on an atoll called Bikini (located in the Marshall Islands), some nuclear weapons. Because, obviously on different levels, this event caused such a stir that the introduction of the new costume designers renamed the now famous clothing item with the same name of the atoll. Since then this flirty head of wardrobe entered forcefully joined the seductive paraphernalia of the fairer sex, varied and drawn in a thousand ways, some of which are among the most unthinkable (especially by imaginative designers like Jean Paul Gaultier). Initially worn by actresses and singers, who used it to exhibit their forms usually perfect (or just to stir up a bit of a stir), with time it became "common heritage" of women around the world and from every walk of life.

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