C. (1966) gave the world the most iconic bikini shot of all time and the poster image became an iconic moment in cinema history. Soccer player and best selling author Mo Isom describes it as, "We're flooded with Instagram bikini pics.

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The National Legion of Decency, a Roman Catholic body overseeing American media content, also pressured Hollywood and foreign film producers to keep bikinis from being featured in Hollywood movies. A 1969 innovation of tan-through swimwear uses fabric which is perforated with thousands of micro holes that are nearly invisible to the naked eye, but which let enough sunlight through to produce a line-free tan. By the time the film was released in the United States in 1958, it was re-titled Manina, the Girl in the Bikini. If you could distil the way in which mainstream society informs how the average man should dress, it would be “Don’t rock the boat, son.In The Bikini Book by Kelly Killoren Bensimon, swimwear designer Norma Kamali says, "Anyone with a tummy" should not wear a bikini. To elaborate, a bandana of a certain colour placed in either the left or right back pocket would denote a sexual desire. Over time the " –kini family" (as dubbed by author William Safire [21]), including the " –ini sisters" (as dubbed by designer Anne Cole [22]), expanded into a variety of swimwear including the monokini (also known as a numokini or unikini), seekini, tankini, camikini, hikini (also hipkini), minikini, face-kini, burkini, and microkini. I’d also hope that clothes might give men the option to avoid more toxic or physical ways of displaying their sexual state.

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In May 1946, Parisian fashion designer Jacques Heim released a two-piece swimsuit design that he named the Atome ('Atom') and advertised as "the smallest swimsuit in the world".The dominance of stultifyingly middle-class normcore tropes, coupled with the gentrification of streetwear, has had the effect of cornering men into a strangely sexless nook, from which any deviation gets shot at from all sides.

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The winners earned titles like Miss Body Beautiful, Miss Physical Fitness and Miss Americana, and also presented trophies to the winners of the men's contest. No runway model would wear it, so he hired a nude dancer from the Casino de Paris named Micheline Bernardini to model it at a review of swimsuit fashions. In 1997, Miss Maryland Jamie Fox became the first contestant in 50 years to compete in a two-piece swimsuit at the Miss America Pageant.Female bodybuilders in America are prohibited from wearing thongs or T-back swimsuits in contests filmed for television, though they are allowed to do so by certain fitness organizations in closed events.