Bikini

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A bikini is a women's two-piece swimsuit featuring a top piece covering the breasts, and a bottom piece covering the pelvis (usually excluding the navel) and some or all of the buttocks. The extent covered by both pieces can vary, from those that offer full coverage of the breasts, pelvis, and buttocks, to more revealing designs with thong or G-string bottoms that cover only the mons pubis and intergluteal cleft, and tops that cover only the areolae. Bikini bottoms covering about half of the buttocks may be described as "Brazilian-cut". The modern bikini swimsuit was introduced by French clothing designer Louis Réard in July 1946, and was named after the Bikini Atoll, where the first public test of a nuclear bomb had taken place four days before. Because of its revealing design, the bikini was once considered controversial, facing opposition from a number of groups and being accepted only very slowly by the general public. In many countries, the design was banned from beaches and other...

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