Bikini and The Bomb: A History of Swimwear - The Seamstress of Bloomsbury

150 years ago if you wanted to go to the beach as a woman you would be wearing several layers of cumbersome cotton or flannel just to dip your toes - thankfully things have changed a lot since then, and swimwear is much more liberating for women now than it was all that time ago. But how did we go from wearing a multi-layered swim ensemble to our modern bikinis where sometimes almost nothing is left to the imagination?

Culture Re-View: A short history on the invention of the bikini

The History of the Bikini - TeenyB Bikini Couture

Welcome to Bikini Bottom(s): The Dark History of the Bikini Swimsuit – Willows Bazaar Boutique & Blog

Bombs over Bikini: The World's First Nuclear - Lerner Publishing Group

Four triangles of nothing': How the bikini was born 70 years ago - The Globe and Mail

The Seamstress of Bloomsbury Blog Tagged Second World War

The Seamstress of Bloomsbury Blog Tagged 1940s

Jacques String Triangle Top – SIR.

the history of the bikini - hanni

the history of the bikini - hanni

Bikini History

The History of Swimwear - Ephemera Society of America

This Is What the First Bikini in History Looked Like

A Brief History of the French Bikini

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Swimsuit, from one-piece to bikini European Fashion Heritage Association

The Bikini: A Cultural History (Temporis): Alac, Patrik