From wool one-pieces to tiny bikinis.
In just three minutes, BuzzFeedVideo takes you through a century of swimsuit styles...
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1920s
Hollywood films are thought to have helped popularize bathing suits in the early 1920s. The most iconic swimsuit of the time was the wool Jantzen bathing suit, featuring the iconic “Red Diving Girl” logo. Some beaches across the U.S. even had regulations on what lengths were allowed. Although wool swimsuits were most common, this was the decade when Speedo released the first non-wool bathing suit.
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1930s
Latex and more form-fitting fabrics were incorporated into swimwear, moving away from the more restrictive wool swimsuits of previous years. ‘Molded fit’ helped define the bustline for the first time in the history of swimwear, adding to the more defined shape of the era.
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1940s
Hello, bikini! In 1946, the swimsuit split in half when Louis Réard introduced the world to the bikini. Named after the atomic bomb testings at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, Réard chose the name because he expected the same explosive results from his invention. The bikini’s popularity was boosted by a wartime conservation of fabric.
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