Bikini Day

Today we celebrate Louis Reard, a French designer par excellence He created, as far as men are concerned, a fashion renaissance. The year was 1946 when Mr. Reard this day unfurled What he would happily advertise as the smallest bathing suit in the world. He took 30 square inches of cloth which he deftly fabricated Into a bra and panties for the beach and voila, the bikini was created. Since the Atomic bomb test on Bikini Atoll the year before garnered such acclaim He chose the name bikini thinking people's reaction would be the same He was right, women immediately bought the bikini and he knew he had a hit when... He received 50,000 fan letters right away- all of them from men. So today we celebrate the bikini, we celebrate it's design, it's simplicity, it's reach And the only reason any man has for going to the beach.