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June 3: On This Day on 1946 - The First Bikini on Display
Wednesday, June 3, 2009 at 9:18AM June 3, 1946: On this day, the first bikini was displayed in Paris. The bikini was invented by Louis Reard, a French designer. He named it after the site of the Operation Crossroads nuclear weapon test in the Pacific, Bikini Atoll. He explained the name by saying that the "burst of excitement" created by his design would be like a nuclear device.
Reard and model wearing one of his first bikinis
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Reader Comments (3)
That's a really cute bikini too
hey now.....that bikini looks like it prompted a song....perhaps that is where the song "itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow polka-dot bikini" came from?? Anyone know?
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