topless swimsuit

In 1935 topless swimsuits for men were worn for the first time during an official competition.

The topless swimsuit was not successful in the United States where women never wore it on beaches.

That month he first envisioned creating a topless swimsuit which he called a monokini.

He is perhaps most noted for his design of the first topless swimsuit, which he called the "monokini".

He was hailed as an innovator who, 25 years ago, created topless swimsuits and other antifashion statements.

The term monokini is also now used for any topless swimsuit, particularly a bikini bottom worn without a bikini top.

He finally got her phone number from Rudi Gernreich, later famed as the designer of the topless swimsuit.

The high-water mark of exposure was the topless swimsuit introduced by the designer Rudi Gernreich in 1964.

On June 16, 1964, Gernreich's topless swimsuit went on sale in New York City.

In Chicago, a 19-year-old female beachgoer was fined US$100 for wearing a topless swimsuit on a public beach.

He smiled at a gargantuan-chested cutie in a technically topless swimsuit, lifted her glass to his lips and tasted it, then thanked her and went on.

Rudi Gernreich designs the original monokini topless swimsuit in the U.S.

In 1964, fashion designer Rudi Gernreich designed the first topless swimsuit, which he called the "monokini" in the US.

Rudi Gernreich's topless swimsuit never got much beyond the beaches of St.-Tropez (where the current Mayor is now saying "non" to nipples).

The miniskirt and the Rudi Gernreich topless swimsuit (itself a dysfunctional garment, with its crisscrossed vestigial straps) also appeared just before a time of widespread social ferment.

His chief ally in this was a new lover, Rudi Gernreich, a designer who would eventually give the 60's its most leeringly hetero novelty item: the topless swimsuit.

Fashion designer Rudi Gernreich, who had in the mid-1960s created the first topless swimsuit, which he called the monokini, is credited with introducing the modern thong in 1974.

In June, 1962, Austrian-American fashion designer Rudi Gernreich introduced a topless swimsuit called the monokini that generated a great deal of controversy in the United States and internationally.

Quickly renamed a "topless swimsuit", the design was never successful in the United States, although the issue of allowing both genders equal exposure above the waist has been raised as a feminist issue from time to time.

On June 19, 1964, when Doda was 26 years old, the Condor's publicist, "Big" Davy Rosenberg gave Doda a "monokini" topless swimsuit designed by Rudi Gernreich.