There is a particular type of women's bathing suit named bikini. One piece of it is utilized to cover the breast, another hides groins. If we see the body that is worn in bikini, we can see that there is much flesh that is not concealed, specially if it is Brazilian bikinis. Nowadays it has become a common thing but in 1946, when it was invented, it was a real sensation indeed. However the history of Brazilian swimsuit didn't begun in fifties, but significantly earlier. When? Some historians notice that the dresses of the ancient Greek women are the prototype of modern bikinis. Lots of historical researches proved that fact. The vogue during the medieval times implied the utilizing of such type of underwear.

The history of today's bikini in the twentieth century was partially related to fabric rationing in the USA in the World War II. Fabric rationing meant that less material was given for bathing suits. The creating of bikini is ascribed to Louis Reard and Jacques Heim, two designers that promoted that modern idea. Micro bikini was a modern fad for that period. There was a great complexity to search for the proper model that agreed to advertise this invention to the society. They had no variants, so they searched out a nude dancer and proposed her to take part in that project. There was a big shock for people that saw the new invention. Lots of men criticized a lot bikini as they had never seen anything like that. That was considered that no modest girl would ever wear such a thing. As the movie industry was fast improving at that time, bikinis started appearing on the screens of cinemas.

The bikinis were commonly utilized by lots of producers that worked in Hollywood studios and created their films there. The reputation of bikini started normalizing. The films which had characters wearing bikinis became more and more popular and quite soon the bikini could be observed on the TV screen in various shows. That was considerably easier for the micro swimwear to gain popularity in Europe in a very short period of time. Already in late 60s it was not an unusual sight. In the United States this period began just in several years. Society in the United States didn't wait too much and in 70s there was the bikini advent. Today the development of bikini hasn't halted. The modern producers of bikini propose the wide spectrum of them: monokinies, microkinies, bikinis for men. Everyone has to make a decision what kind of swimming outfit he or she should wear, but bikini has started the epoch of sexy and revealing female's outfit.