When did the modern bikini come into existence?
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Published in Daily Trivia
According to the official version, the modern bikini was invented by French engineer Louis Reard and fashion designer Jacques Heim in Paris in 1946. It was named after Bikini Atoll, the site of nuclear weapon tests a few days earlier in the Marshall Islands, on the reasoning that the burst of excitement it would cause would be like said thermonuclear device. However, women in Paris were wearing bikinis one year before the bikini was "invented" as documented with pictures in the July 16, 1945 issue of Life.
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