Word: swimsuited
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Scarcely a day goes by at his house without Gernreich's taking a ritual sun-bath and a swim in the nude in his private pool, where he also tests out new swimsuit fabrics. As a former dancer and an outdoors-loving Californian, he believes wholeheartedly in the natural body. He has carried his beliefs into practice. Today, Editor of French Vogue Françoise de Langlade de La Renta claims: "No one has freed the body like Rudi Gernreich, and I doubt that anyone so overflows with ideas." One of his most liberating designs was a simple knit tank suit...
...Heim was considerably less radical than the houses of Dior, Chanel, and Lanvin, trending to very elegant, quietly simple styles (among its clients: Mme. de Gaulle, Queen Fabiola, Mamie Eisenhower), yet could hardly be called stodgy, seeing as how it was the birthplace in 1946 of a teeny-weeny swimsuit called the A tome, which Heim designed for Riviera beaches and which other designers picked up and renamed the bikini; of a cerebral embolism; in Neuilly, France...
...bushes near the starting line in Hopkinton, Mass., waited until the main bunch of runners had disappeared before launching herself onto the course. To disguise her sex, she wore a hooded blue sweatshirt, but when that got too warm, she peeled down to a black swimsuit and Bermuda shorts. For a good portion of the race, she jogged alongside Alton Chamberlain of New York, who said afterward: "She didn't look half as bad as some...
...occasion. I was swimming on the Peking city team and we had an exhibition when the British swimmers were racing the Chinese national team. Chou came down from the stands to greet the team after the meet, and appeared puzzled at finding a Westerner wearing a Peking swimsuit, instead of a British one. He looked back and forth between me and the Britishers for a second; finally he shrugged and, smiling, held out his hand...
...meter race. The resulting suspension was lifted in time to let her compete in the 1964 Olympics, where she did her bit to annoy officials even further by disobeying orders not to march in the opening-day parade. She also refused to wear her regulation Olympic swimsuit because it was "too tight across my bust...