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engineered to weigh nothing wet and cost everything dry
means A garment worn for swimming, designed to cling, dry fast, and stay put in the water.
from A transparent compound of "swim" and "suit." "Swim" descends from Old English "swimman," the verb for moving through water, with Germanic cousins across the North Sea. "Suit" came through Anglo-French "siwte" from Latin "sequi," "to follow" — a suit being a set of things that go together. The pairing is modern, riding the rise of public bathing and seaside leisure, when swimming demanded its own purpose-built outfit rather than ordinary clothes; older terms like "bathing costume" and "bathing suit" came first.
- first bikini
- named after a nuclear test site, 1946
- banned debut
- models refused it, a dancer wore it first
- speed tech
- shark-skin suits got banned for being too fast
- word origin
- once meant the cloth bathing machines wheeled into surf
- chlorine math
- competitive suits die in about 30 wears
bikini — two-piece swimsuit named after bikini atoll, popularized by micheline bernardini in 1946
speedo — brand of competitive swimming briefs created in australia in 1928, became generic term
one piece — traditional single-garment swimsuit, standard competitive format since olympic swimming began in 1896
burkini — full-coverage swimsuit designed by aheda zanetti in 2004 for muslim swimmers