How did the bikini come from —— About the historical evolution of bikini (2)

1870 to 1900 is a turning point in the history of women's swimwear. The style remains the same, but it is getting simpler and simpler, while women still wear corsets under swimsuits-an integrated knitted garment with sleeves and leggings, similar to children's pajamas.

Although it was only accepted by fashion critics in the 1920s. The legislature of the government has passed laws to strictly prohibit this kind of "dissolute" clothing, and the law stipulates that swimsuits must cover the human body from the neck to the knees. Some women were fined for not wearing stockings, shoes or long skirts.

Women's swimming first became an Olympic event in 19 12. Fanny Drucker, wearing a sleeveless one-piece swimsuit with half-length trouser legs, is among the best in many activities. Australian-born female swimmer Annette Kellerman also broke the rules. She was arrested in Boston on 1907 for wearing a bold one-piece swimsuit.

In the early 1920s, the economic prosperity of European and American countries made people pursue life enjoyment in succession. The general "sea and air fever" has become something sought after by the middle class. Rich young people either learn to fly a plane or go to the beach to learn to swim or take a sea bath.

At that time, Jantzen, a nylon clothing manufacturer, created a revolutionary new swimsuit material and laid the foundation for the future swimsuit style. Instead of using cotton, woolen cloth or even inelastic waterproof artificial fiber in the past, nylon cloth with high elasticity, high permeability and low water absorption is used to make a more close-fitting, easy-to-wear and lightweight swimsuit.

These one-piece miniskirts and two-piece vests with boxer shorts not only improve the safety of female swimmers, but also greatly increase the popularity of female swimsuits and help improve women's social status.

The birth of bikini

As we all know, bikini became fashionable under the wave of new revolution in 1960s, but it was invented as early as 1940s. Like underwear, this swimsuit is divided into two parts, designed by French designer Luis Rilde. Because the world's first atomic bomb test happened in Bikini Island in Marshall Islands at that time, this epoch-making swimsuit got its name.

On18th day after the first atomic bomb exploded in Bikini Island, Louis Rilde launched a bathing suit consisting of three pieces of cloth and four straps in Paris on July 1946. This swimsuit with the smallest body area in the world protects the breasts through a bra, and the back is almost bare except for the rope. The crotch of briefs should be raised as high as possible, the largest.

It is simple, small and exquisite, and it takes less than 30 inches of cloth to knead into a ball and put it into a matchbox. Before that, swimsuits were conservative and covered most of the body. However, Reid's design exposed most of the upper abdomen. The swimsuit is made of fabric printed with newspaper content section, which shows that this shrewd designer implies that his bold design will occupy a large number of pages of Le Monde.

When a dancer named Michal Bernardini bravely put on a bikini in public for the first time by the swimming pool, the gathered reporters were dumbfounded. The appearance of this bathing suit shocked the world, no less than the atomic bomb explosion.

Ingenious Rilde used the influence of the atomic bomb exploded in Bikini Island to decisively name the two-piece three-point swimsuit "Bikini", which added the color of the times to the new swimsuit and made a fortune. This kind of "clothing" was only popular in Europe at that time, and it didn't reach the United States until 15 years later.

One of the most classic bikinis is the strapless polka-dot bikini worn by French actress brigitte bardot on the big screen in 1950s. Today, it is still put on the overpass by many fashion brands, becoming a new fashion.

After this early feeling faded, bikini showed a new prospect of swimsuit design. As a bathing suit worn by women on the beach and swimming, bikinis quickly replaced one-piece bathing suits. The sculpture image in the 40' s and 50' s has become a soft and "natural" body line in the 60' s, and the temptation to completely take off the top has always existed.

Bikini culture craze

As soon as the bikini craze spread, it hit the popular culture and moral concepts all over the world with an avalanche. From 1950s to 1960s, beaches in the United States have become a place that everyone loves and yearns for, because there are not only sunshine, beaches and charming sea, but also bikinis showing unprecedented sexiness at the seaside. It is our bodies that are constantly revolutionizing.

The beauty of women's body is highly valued, and people's aesthetic views on the body are increasingly demanding. Round body lines are considered unhealthy and dull, and only a slender figure like steel bars and strong muscles can be recognized. The transformation of swimsuits is also based on figure. Therefore, today's bikini has become the main force of swimsuits, and one-piece swimsuits have long been excluded from fashion. Bikini seems to be favored only if it turns into four triangular fig leaves. we

1964, Rudy's Toplesssuit without a bra showed an adventure of lust under the pressure of high industrialization and opened fire on the fortress of public ethics. Cole has introduced a bathing suit with fishing nets, which can cover the chest and waist.

The dressing form of bikini, by fully expressing the graceful curves of human body, reveals the youthful vigor of enthusiasm and passion, and makes Americans' healthy, bodybuilding and brown bodies become the natural expression and symbol of beauty. "Bikini tells us that the most beautiful thing in life is freedom", which was very popular at that time and gave some western countries a sexy-centered beach culture.

Then there were unstructured swimsuits in the 1970s and 1980s. These swimsuits have almost nothing to cover except the lower body. Swimming without shirts and swimming naked are accepted by more and more people in the world, although only a few people adopt this swimming method.

The swimsuit revolution is approaching maturity. It's just that the invention of new materials makes the function of swimsuit more perfect.

The return of cautious style

In the 1990s, the style of swimwear became more cautious, covering more body area, and some original sewing methods and posture adjustment methods were adopted.

1992, according to the popular prediction that "breast enhancement will return", Cole Company developed an inflatable bikini, which is a bikini with tiny inflatable plugs hidden in a bra, so that women can dress up their bodies with swimsuits.

From 65438 to 0995, with the high-tech materials entering the fashion world, bikini has once again become the favorite design object of many international fashion designers. Bikini reproduces the new gorgeous image of 1950s with high-tech materials and retro style, and bikinis decorated with rhinestones and strap-on bikinis appear one after another.

The novelty and allure of bikini in the fashion world make fashion designers always love bikini, which is a magical art of tailoring clothes for human body and sewing fashion with human body, and constantly creates new styles, such as bikini wrapped with a belt instead of cloth at three points, bikini with Morochness (topless), bikini with mini and bikini with only three tiny straps fixed in shame, which is called "barbaric" style.

In the popularity of bikinis, people found a strange phenomenon. The visual effect of this three-point swimsuit is not obscene, but it is more sexy than nudity, because it shows the exuberant vitality and natural beauty of human life from different angles, which is more and more accepted and loved by the world. This is why bikinis are still popular all over the world after half a century.