Bikini design now 62 years old

Ursula Andress in James Bond's Dr. No

On July 5, 1946, French designer Louis Reard unveiled a daring two-piece swimsuit at the Piscine Molitor, a popular swimming pool in Paris. Because Parisian women were embarrassed to model, Reard hired showgirl Micheline Bernardini to wear the inaugural "bikini." Reard was inspired to call his design after a U.S. atomic test that took place off the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean earlier that week. Ever since, you might say, “bombshells” have been particularly attracted to bikinis.

It was 1962 ( I was 15) when I first saw a woman actually wearing a bikini. She appeared as Honey Ryder, played by Ursula Andress in the James Bond film Dr. No, and later I would often see the bikini and less in the pages of Playboy.