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theniftyfifties: asunburntcountry:

‘Miss Pacific’ pageant winners, Bondi Beach 1952.

Beachwear, 1930s; featured in Life magazine.

personal rambling: There’s a ’30s themed party tomorrow evening but I don’t have anything to wear. I’ve been looking like crazy but can’t find anything to resemble the ’30s fashion, not even in grandma’s closet and I don’t want to settle for something inaccurate. Oh God, life’s hard. /end personal rambling

Beachwear featured in LIFE Magazine, 1941.

On a final note, I hope you enjoyed the Beach Evening (perhaps it wasn’t evening for you - blame the timezones!) as much as I did! If you have more suggestions for theme-evenings, don’t hesitate to ask!

Tonight will end with my favourite picture. It has everything lovable and adorable: polka-dots, a beautiful blonde, candidness, and most of all, a huge and contagious smile!

Exquisite swimsuit from 1989

Fabulous 1950s.

Beachwear 1949-1951

This is quite a conservatory swimsuit for the year of 1959.

Brigitte Bardot, being her fabulous self on the beach in Cannes, 1953

Cute green swimsuit with elephant-printed belt, 1953

Beachwear, 1950–1959

The 1950s were an unusual decade mixing liberalism with conservatism. On one hand we have the widely-known swimsuit ’50s shape with high-waist and strapped halter (examples of which I will post a bit later).

On the other hand, we have 18-year-old Brigitte Bardot hitting the beach in Cannes with an outrageously exposing bikini.

The bikini caught on slowly. The standards of decency of the day would still be respected for the following years.

Beachwear, 1945-1955

Louis Réard, the inventor of bikini, with a model in 1946

The idea of a suit “smaller than the world’s smallest bathing suit” struck him when he saw women rolling up their beachwear to get a better tan. He named his creation bikini after the Bikini Atoll, which was the site of nuclear weapon tests. Words like “atomic” were beginning to be used by the media to describe something sensational and indeed, the shock the bikini would eventually cause would equal that of the bomb.

Alluring silhouette on the beach, 1941.