First up, well run through a short history of the bikini (no sniggering at the back, please) and see how we arrive at the micro bikini.
The two-piece swimsuit we know today as the bikini has only been marketed and sold as such for 60 years. But archaeologists have discovered Minoan wall paintings from 1600 B.C. and Roman mosaics from 300 A.D. that show the bikini, so the ancients were livin it up! Still, it is the debut of the modern bikini in 1946 and its later modifica…