Bikini birthday

Welcome one of hottest in beach wear - the connected bikini. I borrowed this image from www.microkitten.com, it's $72 and as you can see - is absolutely a powerplay suit (by power play I mean one would need bumpers on top and bottom with minimum fat shelved in between to pull off) Microkitten sells the skimpiest bikinis I have seen so far, and a very reliable source has shared that their models are none other than their very own customers/ clients (talk about customer satisfaction). The bikini is now widely accepted and loved by men and women alike.

Anyway, I've gone into this because it just so happens that it is the bikini's 60th birthday today, and my has it ever evolved.

Here are a couple of interesting facts about the bikini:

• It was conceived by a man (no less). French designer Louis Reard introduced it in July 5, 1946
• Bikini was named after the island of Bikini (imagine having to live there), one of 29 atolls (low coral island) in the Central Pacific and part of the Republic of Marshall Islands, which is, ironically, also the location of 23 atmospheric atomic bomb tests from 1946 through 1958. You would think such a place would have been heavenly. Apparently at the time the atomic tests were big news, and so the new fashion was named after it.
• The first woman to wear the bikini was Micheline Bernardini, an exotic dancer at the Casino de Paris, also dubbed by others as a prostitute. And then ironically again, after being introduced to the world by someone labeled a "prostitute," the bikini was initially embraced by the elite European women immediately after its release (talk about suppressed urges)
• There was actually a test to determine the authenticity of a bikini. In the early 50's the original founder of the bikini declared that a two-piece suit wasn't a genuine bikini "unless it could be pulled through a wedding ring."