Bikini and The Bomb: A History of Swimwear - The Seamstress of

150 years ago if you wanted to go to the beach as a woman you would be wearing several layers of cumbersome cotton or flannel just to dip your toes - thankfully things have changed a lot since then, and swimwear is much more liberating for women now than it was all that time ago. But how did we go from wearing a multi-layered swim ensemble to our modern bikinis where sometimes almost nothing is left to the imagination?

A Brief History of the French Bikini

The World's First Bikini: When Was It Invented?

How the Summer of Atomic Bomb Testing Turned the Bikini Into a Phenomenon, At the Smithsonian

Fashion on the Ration: The Evolution of the Bikini, The National WWII Museum

Types of Swimsuit Silhouettes

Babes Bearing Skin A History of the The Bikini Revolution. – AMARA Tulum

Bikini and The Bomb: A History of Swimwear - The Seamstress of Bloomsbury

1950s Swimwear – Ian Drummond Vintage

The History of the Bikini - TeenyB Bikini Couture

History of the Bikini - Bikini Atoll - Origin of Two Piece Swimsuits