The ' -kini family' (as dubbed by author William Safire ), including the ' -ini sisters' (as dubbed by designer Anne Cole ) has grown to include a large number of subsequent variations, often with a hilarious lexicon. These new coinages falsely presumed that the back-formation was purposeful. Later swimsuit designs like the tankini and trikini were also named based on the erroneous assumption that the 'bi-' in bikini denotes a two-piece swimsuit. These derivations of the word bikini were created through inappropriate analogy with words like bilingual, bifocal and bilateral, which contain the Latin prefix ' bi-' (meaning 'two' in Latin), the word bikini was first back-derived as consisting of two parts, by Rudi Gernreich when he designed the monokini in 1964. A topless swimsuit may still be considered a bikini, although naturally it is no longer a two-piece swimsuit. The amount of coverage can vary widely, from a string bikini with very little coverage to a full design with maximum coverage. Modern bikini fashions today are characterized by a simple, brief design: two triangles of fabric that form a bra and cover the woman's breasts and two triangles of fabric on the bottom forming a panty cut below the navel that cover the groin in front and the buttocks in back.

However, the current fashion industry considers any two-piece swimsuit to be a bikini. The name bikini was originally used in the 1940s for the skimpy fashion item that first revealed the wearer's navel. Topless variants are still sometimes considered bikinis, although they are technically not a two-piece swimsuit. Some bikini designs cover larger portions of the wearer's body while other designs provide minimal coverage. A regular bikini is a two-piece swimsuit that together covers the wearer's crotch, buttocks, and breasts. Many stylistic variations of the bikini have been created. Theoretical bikini, dependent wholly upon social expectations, and its own inability to conform to them.Swimsuits based on or influenced by the bikini Since the bikini was introduced in 1946, it has generated a number of variations, often smaller and more revealing than the original. Regarding the purpose of a swimsuit, with some styles literally failing The Peekaboo runs counter to most every assumption commonly made Swimsuits, it's the Peekaboo bikini that finds itself theĬlosest thing to not wearing anything at all. String, between a model's bare breasts and across her stomach, beforeĮven among other styles, with their micromini sizes of female Take, for instance, certain 'stringbody' styles, which beginįirst as a halter-style neck, before travelling down along a single Monokinis, it seems, have also received the Peekaboo Two-piece-the strings, though clinging to the body, cover nothing.

Slingshot bikinis are popular, though like more traditional slingshotīikinis, they tend to provide even less coverage than the standard Have you-becomes entirely a matter of personal taste, with the breastįor the exhibitionist looking for variation, the one-piece Peekaboo

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