We’re in a summer state of mind. Time to hit the beach à la Rita Hayworth!
On July 5, 1946, less than a week after the United States detonated an atomic bomb above tiny Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific, a Frenchman named Louis Réard — an automobile engineer moonlighting as a fashion designer — introduced to the sunbathing public the world’s smallest swimsuit. Réard called his creation the bikini, a name inspired, he later said, by the sight of women rolling up their bathing suits in order to acquire a more complete tan. Read more: ...
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Rita Hayworth at home in Los Angeles, 1945.
Actress Donna Drake playfully takes aim with a rifle on the balcony of her Los Angeles home, 1942.
French actress Barbara Lange in a makeshift two-piece bathing suit she cut from one yard of cloth, 1945.
Sun tan with creative tattoos, 1941
Grace Kelly
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