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“Topless, two-piece, one-piece, trikini, monokini… Whatever type of swimsuit a woman is going to wear, it is her body that is always the subject of debate”. For Brut, historian Audrey Millet looks back at the origins of swimsuits.
“The first bathing suits are not bathing suits”. For Brut, historian Audrey Millet looks back at the birth of the swimsuit, from its creation to the many controversies it has raised.
Originally, the first swimsuits were very different from those marketed today. “Imagine a long-sleeved t-shirt, knee-length pants… in wool” , describes the historian.
“These are in fact bathing clothes, that is to say that we are almost completely covered, except for the head and the feet”she explains.
“After the Second World War, the bikini is essential, then bare breasts. We also had a libertarian year with 1968: opening of sexuality, women’s rights on abortion, the pill…”
In the 80s, he goes “have to be thinner and thinner, more and more toned and therefore, to play sports”explains the historian.
“All the laws since Antiquity are made by men, who prohibit, or not, certain clothes”.
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