Word: minibikini
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Dates: during 1974-1974
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Will the American male take to nádega gazing? "No question," says Paterno. American girls should also enjoy the minibikini's cheeky look. A 28-year-old Canadian woman teaching English in Rio says, "The Tanga reminds us of a G string, and what woman hasn't at some time wished she could wear a G string?" Says a strung-up Ipanema lovely: "It's bacana [right-on]. It's more bacana than a traditional bikini if you have the right body." Most of the girls from Ipanema have the right bodies...
...American women, manufacturers are producing several variations on the minibikini. Alexander's department store in New York has a version with a peek-through top. Cole of California Executive Jack Healy claims that his firm has "engineered the String differently so it will be wearable." The rear half of the unrefined Rio version, Healy says, "keeps creeping toward the center, and the wearer has to tug at it all the time...
...question that tugs at would-be String wearers is whether the minibikini will advertise their assets or expose unlovely flaws. Fashion advisers suggest that no woman should be strung after she is 40 years old. Beverly Hills Designer Jim Riva, who spins his own Strings, warns: "It's something I'd hate to see on every woman in the world. It's got to be for the svelte girl only." Jacqueline Onassis, age 44, who is not noticeably callipygian, sports one but has yet to be photographed from astern. In the U.S., the cheeky look has already...
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