Bikini Body Trivia

Bikini Trivia

The famous song "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" by Brian Hyland debuted in 1960.
The first bikini created by Louis Reard consisted of only 30 square inches of fabric.
In 1993 the US Olympic Committee recognized volleyball as an official Olympic sport and the bikini as the sport's official beach vollyball uniform
The "bi" in the term bikini does not technically have anything to do with the two-piece contstruction of swimwear.
The bikini is the most common type of swimsuit purchased by young women.
Just a few years after the creation of the bikini, many fashion designers were challenged with keeping the item new and current, so they began to create innovations including a bikini made entirely of red hair, a bikini with propellers attached to the bra cups, and a bikini constructed solely of porcupine quills.
In the 2002 James Bond feature Die Another Day, Halle Berry wore the sexy "belted bikini" that was an almost identical version to the one worn by Ursula Andress in the 1962 James Bond classic Dr. No.
With the popular wardrobes of Madonna and Cyndi Lauper in the 1980s, fashion designers began to experiment with similar styled bikinis featuring wired and boned bustier tops.

The bikini was featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated for the first time in 1964.
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini was one of the most popular files of its genre in 1965.
Since the 1960s, swimsuit fashion designers have continued to produce more exotic and shocking cuts and fits for their bikinis.
Babette March's appearance on Sports Illustrated's first swim-suit cover was in a white bikini photographed by J.Fredrick Smith.
The bikini was once banned in Spain, Portugal and Italy.
There are over 50 movies listed on IMDB.com with the word "Bikini" in the title.
Ancient artwork from over 1700 years ago in Villa Romana del Casale has depicted women in bikinis
Many people credit Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon for making the bikini a pop-culture symbol.