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How did the bikini get its name?

Updated: 11/16/2022
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This rather sketchy two-piece was invented by the French in the very early 1950s. It got named the bikini after Bikini Island was destroyed by a US H-bomb test. That is how it got its name - why is quite another matter. Let no-one tell you that the French have no sense of humour.

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