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Beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil July 1986 N8602 Costume N8602: Yellow x-back string soutien-gorge and adjustable string tanga. N8603: Red string halter and string tanga. N8602: TMLA. N8603: TML. N-7. Excessive cleavage. Actions This pair perfectly models the front and the back of the string tanga in all of its minimal glory (1). Swimsuits simply don't get any smaller than this. Commentary The fio dental, as Newsweek calls its, is a Brazilian development and the newest swimsuit phenomena. Newsweek predicts Americans may see the tanga as soon as 1987, ignorant to the fact that it has long since landed in the New World. "It's very sleek, very functiona, and very simple," says Betsey Johnson. "There's something really sexy about stomachs and backs and skin on a beach." Newsweek shows pictures of three bikinis in this 40th anniversary up-to-now story. Newsweek constrasts the tanga (or perhaps these are g-strings) with the more conservative tankini- montante silhouette (N198601). Newsweek probably doesn't realize that the first bikini, which they reprise here in a front view, is also a tanga (LR4601). Although Newsweek has published pictures of maillot tanga before (PZ8201), these are the first tanga bikinis to be published in the magazine. Source Photo credit Gordon/Traub- Wheeler Pictures. "A Brief History of the Bikini," Newsweek, July 7, 1986, p. 48. 1 picture. |
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