Blog: The evolution of the bikini
The popular of Bikini spread with the momentum of an avalanche, impact on the world of mass culture and moral values. Ranging from the 1950s to 1960s, America’s beaches become everyone loves and places, because there was not only sun, sand and sea, and the charming bikini shows an unprecedented in the sexy, constantly in revolution, our body.
In recent years, Ed Hardy the term monokini has come into use for topless bathing by women: where the bikini has two parts, the monokini is the lower part. Where monokinis are in use, the word bikini may jokingly refer to a two-piece outfit consisting of a monokini and a sun hat. The term was coined by Rudi Gernreich.
The tankini is a swimsuit combining a tank top and a bikini bottom. A string bikini is a more revealing alternative style where both top and bottom are reduced to triangles of cloth connected by strings.
The lower part of the bikini was further reduced in size in the 1970s to the Brazilian thong, where the back of the suit is so thin that it disappears into the buttocks.
