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What are some common misconceptions about one-piece bikinis?


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Posted - May 24, 2019

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  • 6023
    That they aren't as sexy as 2-piece bikinis.
      May 24, 2019 7:57 AM MDT
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  • 10026
    Ding! Ding! Ding!
    Exactly what I was going to say, word for word!!
    I like it! :) :)
      May 24, 2019 9:01 AM MDT
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  • 10026
    Since Walt was, "quicker on the draw," than I, my new answer is:
    That they are made for older and heavy set people.
    This is not true. They are also used for competitions and can be extremely flattering. Some women are more comfortable in them and can be much more a fashion statement lounging around the pool.
    Personally, I have both and enjoy wearing both.  I don't feel less sexy in one or the other.  It depends on the pool and environment. 
      May 24, 2019 9:06 AM MDT
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  • 13251
    one-piece bikinis monokinis
      May 24, 2019 9:08 AM MDT
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  • 10026
    Huge Smiles!  Very Clever! :) :)
      May 24, 2019 9:12 AM MDT
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  • 52905

      Laugh all you want to; there’s no way he’s getting away with that.  Grrrr.


      May 24, 2019 2:12 PM MDT
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  • 44175
    The 'bi' in bikini does not mean two. The two-piece swimsuit was named after a Pacific atoll we obliterated it in 1946 with a thermonuclear device. The name given to the swimsuit is vague.

      May 24, 2019 1:11 PM MDT
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  • 13251
    Actually, it does. That's why there are bikinis and monokinis. Bi means two and mono means one.
      May 24, 2019 1:27 PM MDT
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  • 6023

    Etymology and terminology[edit]

    While the two-piece swimsuit as a design existed in classical antiquity,[8] the modern design first attracted public notice in Paris on July 5, 1946.[9] French automotive engineer Louis Réard introduced a design he named the "bikini", adopting the name from the Bikini Atollin the Pacific Ocean,[10][11] which was the colonial name the Germans gave to the atoll, transliterated from the Marshallese name for the island, Pikinni.[12]

    Four days earlier, the United States had initiated its first peacetime nuclear weapons test at Bikini Atoll as part of Operation Crossroads.[13] Réard hoped his swimsuit's revealing style would create an "explosive commercial and cultural reaction" similar to the explosion at Bikini Atoll.[14][15][16][17]

    By making an analogy with words like bilingual and bilateral containing the Latin prefix "bi-" (meaning "two" in Latin), the word bikini was first back-derived as consisting of two parts, [bi + kini] by Rudi Gernreich, who introduced the monokini in 1964.[18][19] Later swimsuit designs like the tankini and trikini further cemented this derivation.[20] Over time the "–kini family" (as dubbed by author William Safire[21]), including the "–ini sisters" (as dubbed by designer Anne Cole[22]), expanded into a variety of swimwear including the monokini (also known as a numokini or unikini), seekini, tankini, camikini, hikini (also hipkini), minikini, face-kini, burkini, and microkini.[23] The Language Report, compiled by lexicographer Susie Dent and published by the Oxford University Press (OUP) in 2003, considers lexicographic inventions like bandeaukini and camkini, two variants of the tankini, important to observe.[24] Although "bikini" was originally a registered trademark of Réard, it has since become genericized.[25]

    Variations of the term are used to describe stylistic variations for promotional purposes and industry classifications, including monokini, microkinitankinitrikinipubikinibandeaukini and skirtini. A man's brief swimsuit may also be referred to as a bikini.[2] Similarly, a variety of men's and women's underwear types are described as bikini underwear.

      May 24, 2019 2:20 PM MDT
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  • 44175
    So there were two monokini atolls we demolished. Shameful.
      May 24, 2019 3:36 PM MDT
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  • 7280
    That the name itself makes any sense.
      May 24, 2019 9:24 AM MDT
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  • 44175
    Trick question?
      May 24, 2019 1:11 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    They tend not to cover what they are made for...and the less the cover the more they cost....:( 
      May 24, 2019 1:23 PM MDT
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  • 6023
    As Minnie Pearl once said:  The fellers that make swimsuits must make a bare livin'
      May 24, 2019 2:17 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    That's very true actually....it's unreal how much some cost ..
      May 24, 2019 2:39 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    A one piece bikini was invented by some guy in the 60's and it was just shorts and nothing else but strings like a suspender.  I'll find him for you.  I think his name was Rudy Gernwich or something like that.  

    That thing you have up there in your picture is no bikini at all.  It is a one-piece, very modest, swimsuit. Period.  



    he suit’s creator, Rudi Gernreich, was an Austrian-born American fashion designer and early gay activist who had learned about female fashion in his aunt’s dress shop in Vienna. Rudi and his mother fled Austria after its annexation to Nazi Germany, where Hitler had banned nudity, among many other acts. Austrian citizens were advocates of exercising nude, a rejection of the over-civilized world. Gernreich was very much against sexualization of the human body and the notion that the body was essentially shameful, which was reflected prominently in his designs…

     

    This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at May 24, 2019 2:41 PM MDT
      May 24, 2019 2:21 PM MDT
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  • 6023
    Actually ... it was French automotive engineer Louis Réard in 1946, who introduced the modern bikini.

    Though the "bikini" has been around since ancient times.
      May 24, 2019 2:40 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    Wrong, I invented the one piece bikini when I was on holiday about ten years in Greece....I didnt pack my bottoms and it was the most embarrassing three weeks of my entire life....it got even worse, as we had to go food shopping every day...  :( 
      May 24, 2019 2:45 PM MDT
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  • 6098
    That they are bikinis. 
      May 24, 2019 8:28 PM MDT
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  • That isn't a one-piece bikini. 

    THIS is.


      May 29, 2019 5:19 PM MDT
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  • 52905

      I can’t see it very well; stand up and turn around, please. SLOWLY! (Cough, cough.)

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      May 29, 2019 10:52 PM MDT
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  •   May 29, 2019 11:01 PM MDT
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  • 52905

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    Person in Crowd #2: I don’t know, but look at the smile on his face.

    Person in Crowd #3: You’re right. Maybe he just received a happy surprise, and it overwhelmed him.

    Person in Crowd #1: Uh, is it just me, or does he seem sort of, er, um, “aroused”?

    Person in Crowd #2: Gee, that must have been SOME surprise!


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      May 29, 2019 11:20 PM MDT
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  • Person in Crowd #4: What a knockout! Must have been given by a woman. 
      May 30, 2019 4:11 AM MDT
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