Old Home Remedies

The World Bikini Football League (TWBFL) is hosting its first live game 11 a.m. Aug. 23 at Civic Stadium in Bellingham. And Federal Way will be well represented. Federal Way resident Elizabeth Dunn plays for the Seattle Emeralds. Former resident and Decatur grad Maureen Francisco plays and is co-captain of the Boise Wildfire. The day consists of six flag football games. Fans also have an opportunity to take pictures and get autographs of the players who reside throughout the Puget Sound area and out of state. General admission is $15, and $8 for children 13 and under and senior citizens.

In addition to playing football, these women have day jobs as personal trainers, actors and CEOs of their own businesses.

In fact, mosaics found in the fourth-century villa at Piazza Armerina in Sicily are festooned with women wearing bikinis.In Hawaii, for instance, we photographed members of the women’s beach volleyball tour. They are among the few professional athletes to actually compete in bikinis, including, of course, the mysterious Swedish Bikini Team members, whose “sport” was about the only thing never made explicit by those beer commercials in which they starred.Of course, Hawaii itself is not so much associated with bikinis as it is with grass skirts.

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Louis Reard had designed Something that would stir the masses. But he needed a name for it, something exotic, bold, and eye opening. Four days before he was to show the world his new bikini in Paris, the U.S. Military provided him with a name. They exploded a nuclear device near several small islands in the Pacific known as the “Bikini Atoll”. On July 5th, 1945, he unveiled the bikini. Although he would later claim he named the bikini after the islands and not the atomic blast, he was clearly taking advantage of a “hot topic”. Another Frenchmen, Jacques Heim, had created his own two piece bathing suit, which he called “The Atome”, and he described it as “The world’s smallest bathing suit.

A bikini or two piece is a women’s swimsuit with two parts, one covering the breasts, the other the groin (and optionally the buttocks), leaving an uncovered area between the two (optionally in the case of the Tankini). It is often worn in hot weather or while swimming. The shapes of both parts of a bikini resemble women’s underwear, and the lower part can range from revealing thong or g-string to briefs and modest square-cut shorts.

The bikini, which shocked when it appeared on French beaches in 1947, dates back to antiquity, in Catalhoyuk and the Greco-Roman world.The modern bikini was invented by French engineer Louis Reard in 1946. He named it after Bikini Atoll in the Pacific, the site of the Operation Crossroads nuclear weapon tests in July that year.

  In 1960 America was ready for new frontiers, including, it seemed, great expanses of bare flesh. That year pop singer Brian Hyland immortalized the suit with his song “Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini.” Three years later “Beach Party”, the first in a series of Annette Funicello / Frankie Avalon flicks with a recurring theme of women danicing in bikinis, hit the big screen.