{"id":8071,"date":"2021-11-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistoryrevealed\/?post_type=purple_issue&p=8071"},"modified":"2022-01-07T14:08:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T13:08:10","slug":"who-invented-the-bikini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistoryrevealed\/2021\/11\/23\/who-invented-the-bikini\/","title":{"rendered":"Who invented the bikini?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Q&A<\/span><\/h1>\n\n

Who invented the bikini?<\/h2>\n\n
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UNDRESSED TO IMPRESS<\/strong> Dancer Micheline Bernadini (right<\/em>) poses in the world\u2019s very first bikini \u2013 the creation of Louis R\u00e9ard (above<\/em>)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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SHORT ANSWER<\/span><\/h5>\n\n

A French engineer unafraid of causing a scandal<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

LONG ANSWER<\/span><\/h5>\n\n

Combine a greater sense of liberation and freedom after World War II, the first summer in peacetime for years, and continuing short supplies of materials, and you have the perfect mix for a daring new outfit. On 5 July 1946, French engineer Louis R\u00e9ard unveiled his invention, the bikini, at a Paris swimming pool. Another designer, Jacques Heim, had claimed to have made the world\u2019s smallest bathing suit, named the \u2018Atome\u2019 after the atom, but Reard\u2019s two-piece was smaller, using just 30 inches of fabric. <\/span>It caused a sensation when modelled by teenage exotic dancer Micheline Bernadini, which Reard knew it would. After all, he named the swimwear after the Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific, where the US had tested atomic bombs just four days earlier.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

PICTURE CREDIT: GETTY IMAGES X2<\/p>\n\n

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