According to the Web site This Day in History,
On July 5, 1946, French designer Louis Réard unveils a daring two-piece swimsuit at the Piscine Molitor, a popular swimming pool in Paris. Parisian showgirl Micheline Bernardini modeled the new fashion, which Reard dubbed “bikini,” inspired by a news-making U.S. atomic test that took place off the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean earlier that week.To learn more about the history of bikinis, click here. If you would like to see more photographs of shapely young women clad in these skimpy fashions ... well, guys, you’re on your own.
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