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Prior to this, women in Europe had been wearing two-piece bathing suits since the 1930s, but it was a halter top and shorts with only a sliver of midriff, the site says. "In the United States, the ...

1985: The tankini, a two-piece bathing ensemble made of a tank top and bikini bottom, enters the Merriam-Webster lexicon — and continues to gain ground up into the late 1990s.

The bikini as we know it first appeared over 70 years ago. Keystone/Getty Images In the summer of 1946, French designer Louis Reard debuted the first two-piece bathing suit, according to Slate.

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