07/13/2025
Wow… Who would have guessed? 1946?
July 5, 1946: On this date in 1946, a French engineer called Louis Réard unveiled an outfit "smaller than the world's smallest swimsuit." It arrived with a bang, so named after the nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll, and remains popular to this day. Here's a photo of Micheline Bernardini modeling one of Réard's original bikini's in 1946.
