Monday 14 July 2014

The bathing suit was pronounced . . .

The bathing suit was pronounced wicked by the Vatican and was banned in Spain, Portugal and Italy, three nations neighboring France, and Belgium and Australia, and it stayed precluded in numerous US states. As late as in 1959, Anne Cole, a US bathing suit creator and girl of Fred Cole, said in regards to a Bardot two-piece, "It's simply a G-string. It's at the razor's edge of decency."in July that year the New York Post hunt down two-pieces around New York City and discovered just a couple. Scholar Meredith Hall composed in her journal that work 1965 one could get a reference for wearing a swimming outfit in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire.

In 1951, the first Miss World challenge, initially the Festival Bikini Contest, was sorted out by Eric Morley as a mid-century promotion for swimwear at the Festival of Britain. The press respected the exhibition and alluded to it as Miss World, and Morley enlisted the name as a trademark. At the point when, the champ Kiki Håkansson from Sweden, was delegated in a two-piece, nations with religious conventions debilitated to withdraw delegates. The two-pieces were banned and night outfits presented. Håkansson remains the main Miss World delegated in a two-piece, a delegated that was denounced by the Pope. Swimsuit was banned from magnificence exhibitions as far and wide as possible after the debate. Catholic-larger part nations like Belgium, Italy, Spain and Australia additionally banned the bathing suit that same year.

The National Legion of Decency compelled Hollywood to keep swimsuits from being offered in Hollywood motion pictures. The Hays generation code for US motion pictures, presented in 1930 however not strictly implemented till 1934, permitted two-piece outfits yet denied navels on screen. Anyhow between the presentation and requirement of the code two Tarzan films, Tarzan, the Ape Man (1932) and Tarzan and His Mate (1934), were discharged in which performing artist Maureen O'sullivan wore scanty two-piece like calfskin outfits. Film antiquarian Bruce Goldstein depicted her garments in the first film as "It's a loincloth open up the side. You can see loin." All adrift was permitted in the USA in 1957 after all two-piece sort garments were expelled from the film.

In France, Réard's organization collapsed in 1988, four years after his passing. By that year the swimming outfit made up about 20% of bathing suit deals, more than whatever viable model in the US. As skin disease mindfulness developed and a less difficult stylish characterized design in the 1990s, offers of the meager swimming outfit diminished significantly. The new swimwear code was exemplified by surf star Malia Jones, who showed up on the June 1997 spread of Shape Magazine wearing a strap best two-piece for harsh water. After the 90s, notwithstanding, the swimming outfit returned once more. US statistical surveying organization NPD Group reported that offers of two-piece bathing suits across the nation hopped 80% in two years. On one hand the one-piece made a huge rebound in the 1980s and early 1990s, on alternate swimming outfits got to be briefer with the string swimsuit in the 1970s and 80s.

The "-kini family" (as named by creator William Safire), including the "-ini sisters" (as named by architect Anne Cole) has developed to incorporate countless varieties, frequently with a humorous vocabulary — string swimsuit, monokini or numokini (top part missing), seekini (transparent swimming outfit), tankini (tank top, two-piece bottom), camikini (nightgown top and two-piece base), hikini, thong, slingshot, minimini, teardrop, and micro. In only one real form demonstrate in 1985, there were two-piece suits with trimmed tank best rather than the typical scanty bandeaux, suits that are two-pieces in front and one-piece behind, suspender straps, unsettles, and brave, navel-exposing set patterns. To meet the quick evolving tastes, a percentage of the producers have made a business out of making made-to-request swimsuits in around seven minutes. The world's most lavish swimming outfit, made up of in excess of 150 carats (30 g) of faultless jewels and worth a gigantic £20 million, was composed in February 2006 by Susan Rosen.

Before the century's over, the swimming outfit happened to turn into the most prominent beachwear around the globe, as per French style antiquarian Olivier Saillard because of "the force of ladies, and not the force of design". As he clarifies, "The liberation of swimwear has dependably been joined to the liberation of ladies", however one overview tells 85% of all swimming outfits never touch the water. As per Beth Dincuff Charleston, exploration partner at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, "The swimming outfit speaks to a social jump including body awareness, good concerns, and sexual demeanor." By the early 2000s, swimsuits had turned into a Us$811 million business every year, as per the NPD Group, a customer and retail data organization. The two-piece has supported twist off administrations like swimming outfit waxing and the sun tanning commercial enterp

Friday 15 February 2013

Invention of bikini



Although Réard was an engineer, he was running his mother's shoe shop Les Folies Bergères in Paris by 1946.Réard and Jacques Heim, his rival designer, was competing to produce the world's smallest swimsuit. Heim developed his swimsuit and called it the "atom" and advertised it as "the world's smallest bathing suit."

In 1946 Réard introduced the bikini. His swimsuit was basically a bra top and two inverted triangles of cloth connected by string and it was significantly smaller. Made out of a scant 30 square inches of fabric, he promoted his creation as "smaller than the world's smallest bathing suit." He called his creation the bikini, named after the Bikini Atoll. The idea struck him when he saw women rolling up their beachwear to get a better tan.

Invention of bikini



Although Réard was an engineer, he was running his mother's shoe shop Les Folies Bergères in Paris by 1946.Réard and Jacques Heim, his rival designer, was competing to produce the world's smallest swimsuit. Heim developed his swimsuit and called it the "atom" and advertised it as "the world's smallest bathing suit."

In 1946 Réard introduced the bikini. His swimsuit was basically a bra top and two inverted triangles of cloth connected by string and it was significantly smaller. Made out of a scant 30 square inches of fabric, he promoted his creation as "smaller than the world's smallest bathing suit." He called his creation the bikini, named after the Bikini Atoll. The idea struck him when he saw women rolling up their beachwear to get a better tan.

Invention of bikini



Although Réard was an engineer, he was running his mother's shoe shop Les Folies Bergères in Paris by 1946.Réard and Jacques Heim, his rival designer, was competing to produce the world's smallest swimsuit. Heim developed his swimsuit and called it the "atom" and advertised it as "the world's smallest bathing suit."

In 1946 Réard introduced the bikini. His swimsuit was basically a bra top and two inverted triangles of cloth connected by string and it was significantly smaller. Made out of a scant 30 square inches of fabric, he promoted his creation as "smaller than the world's smallest bathing suit." He called his creation the bikini, named after the Bikini Atoll. The idea struck him when he saw women rolling up their beachwear to get a better tan.

Thursday 9 August 2012

Bikini

The bikini is typically a women's two-piece swimsuit. One part of the attire covers the breasts and the other part covers the groin and part of or the entire buttocks, leaving an uncovered area between the two. Merriam–Webster describes the bikini as "a woman's scanty two-piece bathing suit" or "a man's brief swimsuit". It is often worn in hot weather, while swimming or sunbathing. The shapes of both parts of a bikini resemble women's underwear, and the lower part can range from revealing thong or g-string to briefs.
While two-piece bathing suits had been worn on the beach before, the modern bikini was invented by French engineer Louis Réard in 1946. He named it after Bikini Atoll in the Pacific, the site of the Operation Crossroads nuclear weapon tests in July that year.

The bikini is perhaps the most popular female beachwear around the globe, according to French fashion historian Olivier Saillard due to "the power of women, and not the power of fashion". As he explains, "The emancipation of swimwear has always been linked to the emancipation of women." By the mid 2000s, bikinis had become a $811 million business annually, according to the NPD Group, a consumer and retail information company. The bikini has boosted spin-off services like bikini waxing and the suntanning industries.

Wednesday 17 August 2011

Great Crested Grebe


Behaviour

The Great Crested Grebe has an elaborate mating display. Like all grebes, it nests on the water's edge, since its legs are set relatively far back and it is thus unable to walk very well. Usually two eggs are laid, and the fluffy, striped young grebe are often carried on the adult's back. In a clutch of two or more hatchlings, male and female grebes will each identify their 'favourites', which they alone will care for and teach

Unusually, young grebes are capable of swimming and diving almost at hatching. The adults teach these skills to their young by carrying them on their back and diving, leaving the chicks to float on the surface; they then re-emerge a few feet away so that the chicks may swim back onto them.

The Crested Grebe feeds mainly on fish, but also little crustaceans, insects and small frogs.
This species was hunted almost to extinction in the United Kingdom in the 19th century for its head plumes, which were used to decorate hats and ladies' undergarments. The RSPB was set up to help protect this species, which is again a common sight.