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The bikini was introduced 75 years ago today.
1 posted on 07/05/2021 1:48:10 PM PDT by DFG
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To: KC_Lion

Ping.


2 posted on 07/05/2021 1:48:41 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: DFG

Pictures of the evolution of the bikini are needed.


3 posted on 07/05/2021 1:49:33 PM PDT by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: DFG

4 posted on 07/05/2021 1:51:07 PM PDT by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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To: DFG

I think the Greeks had the bikini.


8 posted on 07/05/2021 1:53:11 PM PDT by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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To: DFG

Ursula Andress coming out of the sea in that white bikini in Dr. No was a landmark moment for swimwear.


9 posted on 07/05/2021 1:55:26 PM PDT by Roadrunner383
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To: DFG

Who invented that itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow polka dot bikini?
Asking for a friend.


10 posted on 07/05/2021 1:56:04 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: DFG

The greatest invention next to the wheel and beer.


11 posted on 07/05/2021 1:57:01 PM PDT by Seruzawa (The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: DFG

12 posted on 07/05/2021 1:58:45 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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To: DFG
Who starts a bikini thread without pictures?


15 posted on 07/05/2021 2:09:42 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: DFG

I remember hearing that by ‘68 the top part would be gone completely, and being highly disappointed when that did not happen. Still hasn’t, except in ways no man would ever want to see.


17 posted on 07/05/2021 2:15:13 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: DFG
Ah yes! I remember the Bikini... It was my 5th year in the Corps...

When beaches got really hot

19 posted on 07/05/2021 2:23:25 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: DFG

You can thank me later.

20 posted on 07/05/2021 2:31:27 PM PDT by reintarnation
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To: DFG
Here she is - Micheline Bernardini, the original bikini model herself:


33 posted on 07/05/2021 3:09:24 PM PDT by BeauBo
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To: DFG
Apparently, bikini-like fashions existed in pre-history:

and even long, long ago, in a galaxy far away:


34 posted on 07/05/2021 3:24:50 PM PDT by BeauBo
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To: DFG

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37 posted on 07/05/2021 3:48:38 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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To: DFG
And the original model still has the same bikini:


39 posted on 07/05/2021 3:59:35 PM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: DFG

bkmk


47 posted on 07/05/2021 6:10:12 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ((Democrats have declared us to be THE OBSOLETE MAN in the Twilight Zone.))
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To: DFG
Just so we keep in with the cancel culture.. d;^)


49 posted on 07/05/2021 6:38:12 PM PDT by CopperTop (Outside the wire it's just us chickens. Dig?)
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