While two piece swimwear in the West has been around since at least Ancient Greece, the modern bikini dates back to 1946 when the engineer Louis Réard created a new style of swimsuit to sale in his mother’s Paris lingerie boutique. After struggling to find a model willing to wear his creation Réard hired a nude dancer named Micheline Bernardini (shown in the photo) to first wear the suit on July 5th, 1946 at a public Parisian pool. Summer hasn’t been the same since.
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