{"id":10540,"date":"2009-08-28T10:22:15","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T15:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=10540"},"modified":"2017-09-16T18:29:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T23:29:25","slug":"the-invention-of-the-bikini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/08\/28\/the-invention-of-the-bikini\/","title":{"rendered":"The Invention Of The Bikini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time magazine offers readers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/photogallery\/0,29307,1908353,00.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a history of the bikini<\/a> in which they offer these two interesting tidbits:<\/p>\n<p>First, the two piece bathing suit was, in part, justified\/necessitated by war rationing during World War II. There simply wasn&#8217;t enough money to buy all that fabric.<\/p>\n<p>Second, the bikini got it&#8217;s name from the oooh and awe resulting from a nuclear test at Bikini Atoll. Louis R\u00e9ard, to whom the invention of the bikini is credited, followed <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/05\/29\/the-evolution-of-atomic\/\" target=\"_self\">the nuclear-loving fashion of the day<\/a>.\u00a0 He named it after the location, hoping that &#8220;his invention would be as explosive as that test&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time magazine offers readers a history of the bikini in which they offer these two interesting tidbits: First, the two piece bathing suit was, in part, justified\/necessitated by war rationing during World War II. There simply wasn&#8217;t enough money to buy all that fabric. Second, the bikini got it&#8217;s name from the oooh and awe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[225,253,290,309],"class_list":["post-10540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-clothesfashion","tag-history","tag-sciencetechnology","tag-warmilitary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10540"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71081,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10540\/revisions\/71081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}