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

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 swimming suit from the beginning to the present days - The Chic Flâneuse

Culture Re-View: A short history on the invention of the bikini

The Seamstress of Bloomsbury Blog Tagged Second World War

The Seamstress of Bloomsbury Blog

Four triangles of nothing': How the bikini was born 70 years ago - The Globe and Mail

Bikini History

The Unexpected History of the Bikini, by Jennifer R. Povey, The Illusion of Choice

Bikini History

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