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None beauty contest is not without catwalk in swimsuits. A set of "top" and "bottom" helps ease to demonstrate the advantages of a female figure, also with the help of well-chosen swimsuit can be corrected "unformatted" roundness. In this material - the story of the evolution of bathing suit that appeared well before the time when women were allowed to feel free of his own body.
1. Ancient Rome and medieval 'death' swimsuit
Not for nothing is considered to be the era of Antiquity mind harmony, spirit and flesh. The ancient Greeks and Romans not only seen in the human body is nothing to be ashamed of, but thought he was aesthetically beautiful, soulful. Representatives of the ancient world did not shun exercise, so something similar to the modern bikini It can be seen in the frescoes of the period.
With the advent of "dark" Middle Ages, as mentioned earlier in one of the materials Novate.ru, related to the human body has changed dramatically. "Receptacle vices and sinful motives" was to be kept "in a black body" (pardon the pun). Of course, there could be no question of physical development and in particular about bathing. For centuries swimsuit as infamous Dracula spent waiting for a more appropriate time. Fortunately, this time it's ...
2. Chaste 19th century: the main thing - not to drown ...
Perhaps, with Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his "slogan" "Back to nature!" You can lead a new life countdown bathing suit. Finally, swimming in the waters became one of the variations ZOZha end of the 18-19 century. However, the "swimsuit" in this period of the least was intended to be a convenient, does not restrict movement of clothing. The main purpose of the suit for swimming was the observance of the proprieties: a woman, in fact, he was dressed in almost identical everyday dress, cap, socks, shoes or boots - Only "swimming".
Since the law of universal gravitation in the water did not act to bathing kit sometimes sewn metal "weights"To skirt behaved well and no one saw a bit of a ladies' feet (and the skirt was not on the head).
The emergence of a railway transportation the opportunity to "relax by the sea" with health benefits ceased to be the prerogative of the elite. Couturier had to revise the "highly moral criteria" and to offer women still more convenient options for bathing suits. Instead impractical dress to toe - loose tunic with a belt and pants below the knees. Alas, stockings as part of the swimsuit preserved, but go into the water without shoes, some women still currently allowed.
Women (for example, in Victorian England) was improper to swim with the men, and even more to show them a bathing suit. Along the coastline on the beaches of the 19th century housed the so-called bathing machines - such "Houses" on wheels (wooden or canvas), in which the highly moral lady could change for bathing. Then bathing machine lady delivered directly into the waterBypassing the greedy glances of gentlemen, planted on a rigid Victorian diet. All in the name of chastity!
3. Early 20th century: a revolution in the world of swimwear
Despite the fact that in 1912 women's swimming was included in the Olympic program, a bathing suit for fair sex remains the most closed in the first two decades: only the forearms and feet are allowed stripping. However, there were no rebellious antics.
One Australian swimmer Annette Kellerman dared to make changes to the design of the swimsuit, cutting off the sleeves and legs of a standard male tights... And in 1907, excluded from competition (in the US) and arrested for "indecent behavior". To be admitted to the competitions, Annette Kellerman had to sew to the unfortunate tights legs, sleeves and even stand-up collar. However, later "rebel" has launched her own line of swimwear «Annette Kellerman».
However, beachwear democratization process was irreversible: skirts getting shorter, there were shorts (in any case not above the knee!), Shoulders, too, were allowed to uncover within reason. Women are constantly strove to discover a little more of the body: in the 1920s, the fashion is tan.
Gabrielle Chanel, of course, also had a hand in the holy cause of female combat patriarchal conventions. Swimwear "Chanel" has an elegant courage: for example, the model 1922 included a rather short skirt and leaves open the arms and shoulders.
4. 1920-1930-ies: the hunt for "wanton"
Keepers of morality were still alert. In the US, for example, "Moral force" (A sort of "morality police") was walking along the beach with a measuring tape and could easily the arrest of the young ladies, whose beach skirts or shorts above the knee were more than 15 centimeters (6 inches). So, in 1921 in New Jersey Bathers arrested for what she let stockings below the knee.
5. 1940s and bikini Louis Rare: goodbye, "suit"!
Already in 1932 - a new breakthrough in the "bathing fashion": fashion designer Jacques Heim (Heim) creates a very chaste (shorts high waistline and bra-like top), but it exposes a modest striped abdomen split swimsuit. By the way, Jacques Heim in 1946 first proposed fashionistas extremely frank two-piece swimsuit with "romantic" for the name of the nuclear age "Atom" (Ie "very small pieces of tissue").
However, in the same 1946 (although two months later) his rival Rare Louis It is offering fashionistas the most open, bold pattern - bikini. Yes, and urged on peers Jacques Heim: "Bikini - is divided Atom!". Alluding to the "bomb" in the world "bathing fashion," Louis called Rare provocative swimsuit after the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean (where the US military carried out tests of a nuclear bomb).
Model of Rare was so outspoken by the standards of 1940, that mannequins refused to go in a bikini on the podium. The situation was saved by a more unfettered Micheline Bernardini - dancer from the music hall "Casino de Paris". They say that after the show she received about 50,000 letters from admiring men.
Swimsuit that "tells the story of a woman all but the maiden name of her mother," and that, according to Louis Rare, You can pass through the engagement ringFor a long time it caused a shock in the bourgeois power and criticized. Authoritative publications until the end of 1950 stated that "respectable woman" never wear a bikini. In Spain, Italy and Portugal, the model was banned altogether, but the Vatican said that over the bikini "can hide the four horsemen of the Apocalypse."
Nevertheless, in 1953, Brigitte Bardot in a bikini walking on the promenade in Cannes, after the cult film "James Bond - 007" 1962, where the heroine Ursula Anders emerging from the sea in a bikini with a knife on his hipA bold swimsuit ever gained credibility in the world of beach fashion.
6. Modern swimsuits: what's new?
Perhaps the sensation that is produced at the time the bikini, it is impossible to repeat. After the "sexual revolution" 1960-1970-x model "bikini", of course, has undergone some changes, but they can be reduced to one: the tissue becomes less and less. For instance, model "nanokini" - 3 tiny pieces of cloth on a string - rather, it is an option for an erotic photo shoot or strip dance, rather than a beach.
"Monokini" initially assumes the complete absence of the top (topless), from the 1970s called model conditionally "fused" leotard, but "close relative" bikini: between the upper and the lower portion should monokini to be "Connection" in the form of a fabric strip of any configuration or at least Cords / Chains. Monokini - model, popular, most, high fashion in the world, due to unnecessary details nice tan in a bathing suit is not possible.
7. As P.S. Modern swimsuit for religious ladies
Not spared swimsuits and women who for religious reasons or in accordance with the traditions of the state have no right to even partially naked. For example, Muslim women who love to dress up, relax on the beach, burkini ( "Cloak" - a veil) - a swimsuit that leaves open only the hands, feet and face. Burkini is made of modern materials - breathable and quick-drying.
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