Swimsuit

A swim brief refers to any briefs style male swimsuit such as those worn in competitive swimming and diving. The popularity of the Australian Speedo brand racing brief has led to the use of its name in some countries to refer to any racing brief, regardless of the maker. Occasionally, the Speedo genericized trademark also applies to square cut swimsuits, but in general the generic term is used in reference to swim briefs. Swim briefs are also referred to as competition briefs, bathers, racer bathers, posing briefs, racing briefs, and colloquially in Australia as budgie smugglers . !ike underwear briefs, swim briefs feature a "#shape front and a solid back providing form#fitting coverage. They typically are worn below the lower waist. They are generally secured by thin banding at the upper thighs and either a drawstring around the waist or an elastic waistband. Swim briefs are most often made of a nylon and spande$ composite, while some longer lasting suits are made from polyester and still others from other materials. %ost swim briefs have a beige or white front lining made of a similar fabric. A bikini is generally a women&s two#piece swimsuit. The design is simple' two triangles of fabric on top cover the woman&s breasts and two triangles of fabric on the bottom cover the groin and the buttocks, leaving the woman&s midriff e$posed. (hat distinguishes the bikini from other swimsuits is its brevity. The size of the panty can range from full coverage to a revealing thong or g#string design. The modern bikini was introduced by )rench engineer !ouis *+ard and separately by fashion designer ,acques -eim in .aris in /012. %any western countries declared it illegal and "atican declared it sinful. .opularized by filmstars like 3rigitte 3ardot and 4rsula Andress it became common in most western countries by mid /025s. )urther variants were added to the bikini family of beachwears and bathing costumes, contributing to the popular le$icon a variety of #kinis and #inis' %onokini, %icrokini, Tankini, Trikini, .ubikini, 3andeaukini, Skirtini and Sling bikini. A man&s brief swimsuit may also be referred to as a bikini. A variety of men&s and women&s underwear is also known as bikini underwear. Made In Italy Beachwear :The bikini appears in competitions, films, magazines, music, literature, magazines and even video games. 6espite the easy availability of more revealing glamor imagery, bikini modeling remains popular and can still stir controversy. .ortrayals of the bikini in popular culture led, to a large e$tent, to its acceptance by (estern society at large. 7n /025, 3rian -yland&s pop song 7tsy 3itsy Teenie (eenie 8ellow .olka 6ot 3ikini inspired a bikini#buying spree. The white bikini worn by 4rsula Andress as -oney *yder in the /029 ,ames 3ond film 6r. :o has been cited as the most famous bikini of all time and an iconic moment in cinematic and fashion history. 3y /02;, the movie 3each .arty, starring Annette )unicello and )rankie Avalon, led a wave of films that made the bikini a pop#culture symbol. .layboy first featured a bikini on its cover in /029. The Sports 7llustrated Swimsuit 7ssue debuted two years later. This increasing popularity was reinforced by its appearance in contemporary movies like -ow to Stuff a (ild 3ikini featuring Annette )unicello and One %illion 8ears 3.< featuring *aquel (elch. -ollywood stars like %arilyn %onroe, ,ayne %ansfield, =ina !ollobrigida and ,ane *ussell helped the growing popularity of bikinis further. .in up

posters of %onroe and %ansfield, as well as -ayworth, 3ardot and *aquel (elch distributed around the world contributed significantly to the popularity of the bikini.

Push Up Top
Types of underwear worn by both men and women are identified as bikini underwear because they are similar in size and form to the bottom half of a bikini bathing suit. )or women, bikini underwear can refer to virtually any tight, skimpy, or revealing undergarment that provides less coverage to the midsection than traditional underwear, panties or knickers. )or men, a bikini is a type of undergarment that is smaller and more revealing than men&s briefs. 3ikini briefs can be low# or high#side bikini briefs but are usually lower than true waist, often at hips, and usually have no access pouch or flap, legs bands at tops of thighs. String bikini briefs have front and rear sections that meet in the crotch but not at the waistband, with no fabric on the side of the legs. Swimwear design always had close connections with underwear because of their shared pro$imity to the body. The difference is that swimwear takes underwear into the public arena. The swimsuit was and is closely aligned to underwear in terms of styling, and with the move from the private to public spaces. As underwear became more minimal and comfortable, unboned, unconstructed and the attitude towards the bikini changed. 3etween /055 and /015, the swimming costume became shorter and shorter, imitating the trend of underwear. Swimwear evolved from weighty wool to high tech second skin, eventually cross#breeding with sportswear, underwear and e$ercise wear, resulting in the interchangeable fashions of the /005s. A string bikini is scantier and more revealing than a tanga bikini. 7t gets its name from the string characteristics of its design. 7t consists of two triangular shaped pieces connected at the groin but not at the sides, where a thin string wraps around the waist connecting the two parts. String bikini tops are similar and are tied in place by the attached string pieces. String pieces can either be continuous or tied. A string bikini bottom can have minimal to ma$imum coverage of a woman&s backside. 7t is claimed that 3razilian fashion model *ose de .rimallio created the first string bikini when she had to sew one with insufficient fabric available to her for a photoshoot. The first formal presentation of string bikini was done by =len Tororich, a public relations agent, and his wife 3randi .erret#6u,on, a fashion model, for the opening of !e .etite <entre, a shopping area in the )rench >uarter of the :ew Orleans, !ouisiana in /0?1. 7nspired by a picture of a *io de ,aneiro fashion model in an issue of (omen&s (ear 6aily, they had local fashion designer !apin create a string bikini for the event. %odels recruited by talent agent .eter 6asigner presented it by removing fur coats by Alberto !emon on stage. The presentation was covered by local television stations and the :ew Orleans Times#.icayune newspaper, and was sent out via the wire news services of the Associated .ress and 4nited .ress 7nternational. String bikinis are one of the most popular variations of bikini. 3ikinis are also worn at the hips, but the fabric at the sides is narrower. 7n the string bikini, it disappears altogether to leave the waistband as a string . The rear coverage of the bikini is not as full as with the brief. 3ikini is the most widely worn style among women worldwide.

Brasilian Bottom : Sales did not pick up around the world as women stuck to traditional one#piece swimsuits. *+ard went back to designing orthodo$ knickers to sell in his mother&s shop. 7n /0@5, Time magazine interviewed American swimsuit mogul )red <ole, owner of <ole of <alifornia, and reported that he had little but scorn for )rance&s famed 3ikinis. One writer described it as a two#piece bathing suit which reveals everything about a girl e$cept for her mother&s maiden name. %odern =irl %agazine, a fashion magazine from the 4nited States, was quoted in /0@? as saying, it is hardly necessary to waste words over the so#called bikini since it is inconceivable that any girl with tact and decency would ever wear such a thing . 7n /0@/, the first %iss (orld beauty pageant, originally the )estival 3ikini <ontest, was organized by Aric %orley as an advertisement for swimwear at the )estival of 3ritain. The press welcomed the spectacle and referred to it as %iss (orld, and %orley registered the name as a trademark. (hen the winner Biki -Ckansson from Sweden was crowned in a bikini, countries with religious traditions threatened to withdraw delegates. The bikinis were banned from the pageant and evening gowns introduced instead. -Ckansson remains the only %iss (orld crowned in a bikini, a crowning that was condemned by the .ope. The bikini was banned from beauty pageants around the world after the controversy. 3elgium, 7taly, Spain and Australia also banned the swimsuit that same year. StellAmore Beachwear A monokini, sometimes referred to as a unikini, is a women&s one# piece garment equivalent to the lower half of a bikini. The term monokini is also now used for any topless swimsuit, particularly a bikini bottom worn without a bikini top. 7n /021, *udi =ernreich, an Austrian fashion designer, designed the original monokini in the 4S. =ernreich also invented its name, and the word monokini is first recorded in Anglish that year. =ernreich&s monokini looked like a one#piece swimsuit suspended from two halter straps in the cleavage of bared breasts. 7t had only two small straps over the shoulders, leaving the breasts bare. 6espite the reaction of fashion critics and church officials, shoppers purchased the monokini in record numbers that summer, though very few monokinis were ever worn in public. 3y the end of the season, =ernreich had sold ;555 swimsuits at D91 apiece, which meant a tidy profit for such a minuscule amount of fabric. 7t was not very successful in the 4SA, where although allowing the se$es equal e$posure above the waist, have never accepted it for the beach. %any women who wanted to sunbathe topless simply wore the bottom part of a bikini. %anufacturers and retailers quickly adapted to selling tops and bottoms separately. =ernreich later created the lesser known pubikini. Brasilian Bottom Types of underwear worn by both men and women are identified as bikini underwear because they are similar in size and form to the bottom half of a bikini bathing suit. )or women, bikini underwear can refer to virtually any tight, skimpy, or revealing undergarment that provides less coverage to the midsection than traditional underwear, panties or knickers. )or men, a bikini is a type of undergarment that is smaller and more revealing than men&s briefs. 3ikini briefs can be low# or high#side bikini briefs but are usually lower than true waist, often at hips, and usually have no access pouch or flap, legs bands at tops of thighs. String bikini briefs have front and rear sections that meet in the crotch but not at the waistband, with no fabric on the side of the legs. Swimwear design always had close connections with underwear because of their shared

pro$imity to the body. The difference is that swimwear takes underwear into the public arena. The swimsuit was and is closely aligned to underwear in terms of styling, and with the move from the private to public spaces. As underwear became more minimal and comfortable, unboned, unconstructed and the attitude towards the bikini changed. 3etween /055 and /015, the swimming costume became shorter and shorter, imitating the trend of underwear. Swimwear evolved from weighty wool to high tech second skin, eventually cross#breeding with sportswear, underwear and e$ercise wear, resulting in the interchangeable fashions of the /005s. %ore results' %ade 7n 7taly 3eachwear -igh And )abric 3eachwear