Louis Réard: Bikini Designer

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Shocking 1 Swimwear It’s a hot summer day You are headed to a busy beach to cool off You arrive and see some kids building sand castles Others are swimming One group is playing a game of beach volleyball Most of the boys and men are wearing swim trunks And many of the girls and women are wearing two-piece suits These two-piece suits come in many different styles They allow girls to swim play and move freely Today these two-piece suits are called bikinis Louis Réard REE-eerd designed and named the first bikini Réard’s creation was not the first two-piece swimsuit But it was the smallest the world had ever seen Before Réard’s bikinis swimwear was much more modest Réard’s design shocked the world but it soon became a fashion icon For the last 70 years bikinis have been popular on beaches around the world