On 21 Oct 2023 19:29:10 -0300, Mike Spencer
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airbrushed out of the photos
Pre 1970s perhaps for Sears.
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The National Legion of Decency pressured Hollywood to keep bikinis
from being featured in Hollywood movies.[100] The Hays production code
for US movies, introduced in 1930 but not strictly enforced until
1934, allowed two-piece gowns but prohibited navels on screen.[101] ........................
In reaction to the introduction of the bikini in Paris, American
swimwear manufacturers compromised cautiously by producing their own
similar design that included a halter and a midriff-bottom
variation.[105] Though size makes all the difference in a bikini,[106]
early bikinis often covered the navel. When the navel showed in
pictures, it was airbrushed out by magazines like Seventeen.
Navel-less women ensured the early dominance of European bikini makers
over their American counterparts.[107] By the end of the decade a
vogue for strapless styles developed, wired or bound for firmness and
fit, along with a taste for bare-shouldered two-pieces called Little
Sinners but it was the halterneck bikini that caused the most moral
controversy because of its degree of exposure. So much so as bikini
designs called "Huba Huba" and "Revealation" were withdrawn from
fashion parades in Sydney as immodest.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_bikini
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