When you compare it to what we have today, early bikinis from the 40s and 50s look pretty demure to modern eyes. But when it was first introduced in 1946 it was considered so scandalously revealing that no professional models could be found who were willing to wear it.
The only woman willing to model it was nineteen-year-old Micheline Bernardini--a stripper and nude dancer in Paris.
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