The designers espoused a modular concept of dressing, built on stretchy bandeau tops and bandage-style girdles, accessorized with long, dark hose for a final prurient touch.

They looked great with matching bandeau tops and a new stripped-down Roman sandal.

She chose an outfit of tap shorts and a bandeau top from the 1940's ($45).

There were sharply cut jackets, some looking slightly shrunken over a bandeau top and hot pants hoisted up the rear.

Packs of women cruised the streets of downtown resplendent in bandeau tops and bikini bottoms beneath sheer dresses, or Lycra body suits that made them look injection-molded.

For watering les fleurs du mal, J. Crew's apple-green bandeau top, worn with jeans and red rubber boots, is a saucy choice for tar beach.

At the same photo shoot, other contestants wore nude-colored bandeau tops.

By the 1990s however, fashions changed and high-cut bottoms and bandeau tops were in vogue.

Daubed with body paint including white hand prints resembling prehistoric glyphs, male dancers wore red loincloths, the women mini-sarongs and bandeau tops (over all-but-invisible body stockings).

Alternatively called a bandini, its appeal grew fast among young women with bandeau tops edging into the sales of the classic tankini.