Half Naked Women and One of the Most Destructive and Controversial Events in History

Ah, the Bikini! What event more definitively announces that summer has arrived than the appearance of this classic swimsuit at beaches and poolsides across the world? An icon of women’s fashion, the bikini has permeated pop culture like few articles of clothing, giving us such lexical gems as bikini season, bikini bottom, and bikini wax. But while ubiquitous today, when first introduced in the summer of 1946, this skimpy swimsuit caused an outright scandal, and was banned in many places for decades. But this reaction was exactly what the bikini’s designer intended, for he named his creation after one of the most destructive and controversial events in human history. This is the explosive story of that event and how it resulted in the bikini we all know and love today. This is an abridged version of a video on our channel TodayIFoundOut which you can check out and subscribe to here:    / @todayifoundout