TIL when swimsuit designer Louis Réard launched

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TIL when swimsuit designer Louis Réard launched the first modern bikini in 1946, it was so flesh-baring that models were unwilling to wear it, so he hired nude dancer Micheline Bernardini to debut it at a beauty pageant on July 5, 1946.
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How the Summer of Atomic Bomb Testing Turned the Bikini Into a Phenomenon

The scanty suit’s explosive start is intimately tied to the Cold War and the nuclear arms race

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