backs, waiting for incoming waves. The waves would come and usually, not only cover the women, but also raise their dresses up to their neck. They might as well have been without a dress, as far as decency is concerned. All this happened in the presence of thousands of people (Johnson 2-3).

According to William Oscar Johnson, no other person in the past century did more to make the female body a visible, along with respectable, element of swimsuit fashion than Annette Kellerman, a swimmer who starred for years as ?The Diving Venus?

Thanks to Brigitte Bardot, the bikini finally catches on in the French Riviera because she was often photographed wearing a bikini there (Johnson 7). Brigitte also frolics in a bikini in ?And God Created Woman,? forming an intense market for the

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