Showing posts with label Happy Birthday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Happy Birthday. Show all posts

Monday, August 9, 2010

Teeny Bikini Revealed


The classic bikini is to sun, surf and summer like America is to Apple Pie. It seems like it's been apart of our culture forever. July was the bikini's birthday.

What many people don't know is that "(s)ixty years ago this week, the world's first bikini made its debut at a poolside fashion show in Paris...When the bikini first arrived, its revealing cut scandalized even the French fashion models who were supposed to wear it; they refused, and the original designer had to enlist a stripper instead. Click on
Bikini Revealed for the full post.

Thanks to MSN Slate Articles about the bikini.

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Happy Birthday, Marilyn!

Thanks to LIFE magazine, we're honoring Marilyn Monroe's (Norma Jeane Baker) birthday, posting some of her famous swimsuit photos.

Marilyn in the early 1950s


My personal favorite is the 1959 photo with Jack Lemmon from "Some Like It Hot" (image above). With Marilyn, you don't need summer to turn up the heat. Insecure in her personal life, Marilyn was one person who appeared comfortable and confident in her photos.

Posing in a polka dot bikini, 1951 and in her final film (above), "Somethings Got to Give," in 1962 (below). From the outside, she looks like she had it all.


Happy 84th Birthday, Marilyn!

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