The modern bikini has a relatively short history only spanning a little over a half century or so, but bikini-like suits have been around and worn commonly for certain activities since at least the times of the Greco-Romans. In fact, the first known instance of any type of bikini goes back even further to around 5600 BC with a surviving depiction of woman/goddess of Çatalhöyük astride two leopards wearing the garb.
Archeological evidence uncovered in Pompeii shows Venus, the goddess of love and beauty, also clad in bikini-like garb. But as far as the modern bikini goes, the first steps in its evolution began on a Boston beach in 1907.
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An Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny History of the Bikini
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