One That Almost Made Valentines Week: Natassia Malthe

As perfect for Valentines Week it would have been, we thought this lovely visage of dancer/actress Natassia Malthe so spectacular that it could stand on it's own.

Relax, You've Made It To Friday

Rest a bit, in an Ines padded bra and matching briefs from Poland's Gorteks or otherwise.

AnnaLynne McCord Lingerie Pictures

Kelly Brook Beautiful Lingerie Pictures

Kelly Brook (born Kelly Ann Parsons in Rochester, Kent, England, on 23 November 1979) is an English model, actress, occasional swimwear designer and television presenter.

She has also appeared in commercials for Sky + & T Mobile and modelled for Reebok. In 2010, fourteen years after she started off her career as a lingerie model, she was chosen as the "new face and body" of lingerie maker Ultimo's advertising campaign

Emma Santos Beautiful Bikini Pictures

Happy St. Patrick's Day: Green Beer, or Rachel Alexander?

If you picked green beer as your choice, it's my guess you've already had too much of it. Here's to hoping you can find another colleen like model Rachel Alexander who'll respond just a enthusiastically should you ask if she's wearing anything green for St. Patrick's Day.. and whatever it is, she'll allow you the pleasure of giving said lingerie the same treatment as Ms. Alexander's accorded her sweater dress. Ms. Alexander's bra and panties by Andres Sarda.

Canadian Fashion model Sarah Mutch

Sarah Mutch is a Canadian fashion model who has modeled for magazines including Maxim magazine and Ocean magazine. Her career began when she was discovered at age thirteen in her hometown of Vancouver, Canada, by Jeff Palffy. In the year following, she moved to New York City where she has continued her career. Since then, she has appeared in numerous other magazines such as Vogue, Cosmopolitan, and Elle. She has also made appearances in television shows such as Smallville, Jake 2.0 and Supernatural as well as an appearance in the 2008 film The Seamstress.

Sarah Mutch Bikini Pictures

Sarah Mutch Bikini Pictures

Sarah Mutch is a Canadian fashion model who has modeled for magazines including Maxim magazine and Ocean magazine. Her career began when she was discovered at age thirteen in her hometown of Vancouver, Canada, by Jeff Palffy. In the year following, she moved to New York City where she has continued her career. Since then, she has appeared in numerous other magazines such as Vogue, Cosmopolitan, and Elle. She has also made appearances in television shows such as Smallville, Jake 2.0 and Supernatural as well as an appearance in the 2008 film The Seamstress.

Doutzen Kroes Bikini Pictures

Bikini contest

A bikini contest is a beauty contest where women compete against each other in bikinis.

Bikini contests can take place in bars, nightclubs, at beaches, and beauty pageants. Related companies regularly sponsor such contests to discover and attract new talents to promote their products. Bikini contests can also take place over the Internet by women submitting pictures of themselves in bikinis.

Contestants often wear sashes indicating where they are from in bikini contests, in similarity to the tradition in other beauty pageants. It is becoming more and more common for women to wear bikinis as part of the swimsuit competitions at major pageants. Participants in the Miss Teen USA pageant are now required to wear bikinis.

The name "bikini contest" may be misleading in that the contestants are not actually contesting the bikini itself. Rather, the competition revolves around a subjective assessment of the physical attractiveness of the participants, which may or may not involve the actual bikinis they wear and/or remove during the "competition".

There are variations of the contest known as "Whipped cream bikini contest" or "Shaving cream bikini contest". These contests involve using either whipped cream or shaving cream instead of bikinis where the cream is sprayed on contestant's nude or semi-nude body in the form of a bikini. As the contest continues, the cream would gradually melt due to body heat and heat from stage lights and slowly reveal the areas covered in cream on the contestant's body.

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Bikini: Media depiction

The sex appeal of the apparel prompted numerous film and television productions as soon as public morals changed to accept it. They include the numerous surf movies of the early 1960s and the television series, Baywatch. Iconic portrayals of bikinis in movies include Ursula Andress as Bond girl Honey Ryder in Dr. No (1962), Raquel Welch as the prehistoric cavegirl in the 1966 film One Million Years B.C., and Phoebe Cates in the 1982 teen film Fast Times at Ridgemont High. These scenes were recently ranked 1, 86, and 84 in Channel 4 (UK)'s 100 Greatest Sexy Moments (in film) respectively. In addition, a variant of the bikini popular in fantasy literature is a bikini that is made up of metal to serve as (admittedly rather impractical) armor, sometimes referred to as a "chain mail bikini" or "brass bikini"; the character Red Sonja is a famous example. A term for such usage, where sex appeal is more important than actual practicality, is babes-at-arms (parodying "men-at-arms" for fully armoured soldiers).

In science fiction, Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi features the notable "Princess Leia's metal bikini" costume, that is worn by the character Princess Leia when she is held captive at the film's beginning. This particular "bikini" has since been elevated to pop culture icon status, spawning various spoofs and parodies (most notably the episode of Friends, The One with the Princess Leia Fantasy) and even a dedicated fansite, Leia's Metal Bikini.

An Alternative history of the naming of the Bikini comes from The Gang of Four (band) song "I Found That Essence Rare". The Bikini is suggested to be "...dressed for the H-Bomb..." It is a bitterly sarcastic political statement about what protection we may offer against such a technology in parallel with the damage cause to Bikini Atoll.

* The song "I Found That Essence Rare" by Gang of Four includes the lyrics:

Aim for the body rare, you'll see it on TV
The worst thing in 1954 was the Bikini
See the girl on the TV dressed in a Bikini
She doesn't think so but she's dressed for the H-Bomb

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Development of the bikini

In recent years, the term monokini has come into use for topless bathing by women: where the bikini has two parts, the monokini is the lower part. Where monokinis are in use, the word bikini may jokingly refer to a two-piece outfit consisting of a monokini and a sun hat. The term was coined by Rudi Gernreich.

The tankini is a swimsuit combining a tank top and a bikini bottom of the traditional bikini that generally consists of the barest minimal fabric coverage for the top and bottoms, both are reduced to triangles of cloth connected by strings. The tankini is not a flattering style for most. Many prefer it to the bikini because it covers their stomach, but in actuality it draws more attention to the stomach. Because it cuts the body in half it can make one appear shorter or heavier. For many women, the string bikini may actually be the most flattering bikini style. The string bikini style looks best on women with small busts or boyish shapes. Because women with small breasts do not need a large amount of bra-style support, a traditional triangle top can serve to add more shape and curve to the breasts. In addition, triangle tops with built-in under wires can work similarly to a push-up bra to maximize the breasts.

The lower part of the bikini was further reduced in size in the 1970s to the Brazilian thong, where the back of the suit is so thin that it disappears into the buttocks.

Female athletes who play beach volleyball professionally usually wear two-pieces.

As for Asian women, triangular-shape string top and square-cut short may look the best for many. Asian women, especially those with slender figures, tend to have less curvature at the bottoms and more elongated slender thighs, therefore square-cut shorts appear to add volumes to the bottoms and draw attention to the elongated slender legs; often result in more flattering appeal.

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Bikinis in modern culture

In 1951 bikinis were banned from the Miss World Contest following the crowning of Miss Sweden in a bikini and subsequent protests with a number of countries threatening to withdraw. In 1957, however, Brigitte Bardot's bikini in And God Created Woman created a market for the swimwear in the US, and in 1960, Brian Hyland's pop song "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" inspired a bikini-buying spree . In 1962, an icon was born as Bond Girl Ursula Andress emerged from the sea wearing a white bikini in Dr. No. Finally the bikini caught on, and by 1963, the movie Beach Party, starring Annette Funicello (emphatically not in a bikini, by mentor Walt Disney's personal request) and Frankie Avalon, led a wave of films that made the bikini a pop-culture symbol.

In Malta, bikinis took time to be introduced. In the 1960s, the police fended off Bishop Michael Gonzi's request to ban bikini clad tourists following fear of compromising Malta as a tourist destination. Malta Labour Party girls felt safe putting on bikinis during beach parties but this was unacceptable by those supporting the Nationalist Party.

On beaches and certain parks in Europe, the top part of the bikini is sometimes not worn.

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Bikini: Modern origin

According to the official version, the modern bikini was invented by French engineer Louis Réard and fashion designer Jacques Heim in Paris in 1946 and introduced on July 25 at a fashion show at Piscine Molitor in Paris. It was a string bikini with a g-string back. It was named after Bikini Atoll, the site of nuclear weapon tests a few days earlier in the Marshall Islands, on the reasoning that the burst of excitement it would cause would be like the nuclear device. Reard's suit was a refinement of the work of Jacques Heim who, two months earlier, had introduced the "Atome" (named for its size) and advertised it as the world's "smallest bathing suit". Reard 'split the "atome"' even smaller, but could not find a model who would dare to wear his design. He ended up hiring Micheline Bernardini, a nude dancer from the Casino de Paris as his model.

Bikini-style swimwear existed for many years before the first official bikini, however. The July 9, 1945, issue of Life, for example, shows women in Paris wearing similar items. Films of holidaymakers in Germany in the 1930s show women wearing two-piece bathing suits. Anyone who has seen the elaborately and lavishly assembled Busby Berkeley film spectacle, Footlight Parade of 1932 would have been treated to a stunning aquachoreography that profusely featured what could only be regarded as bikini swimwear. They were to be seen again a year later in Gold Diggers of 1933.

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Bikini

A bikini or two-piece is a type of women's swimsuit, characterized by two separate parts — one covering the breasts, the other the groin (and optionally the buttocks), leaving an uncovered area between the two garments. It is often worn in hot weather and while swimming. The shapes of both parts of a bikini closely resemble women's underwear, and the lower part of a bikini can therefore range from the more revealing thong or g-string to briefs and the more modest square-cut shorts.

Two-piece garments worn by women for athletic purposes have been observed on Greek urns and paintings, dated as early as 1400 BC. Ancient artwork from over 1700 years ago in Villa Romana del Casale have depicted women in bikinis.

Sometimes the term bikini is used to describe the type of man's swimsuit also known as a speedo although real men's bikini swimsuits do exist that are not brief like.

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Original Skin Bikini

Seamless, stretch fabric - Tagless for comfort - Comfortable bikini - Low, 5 inch rise
Vanity Fair: Original Skin Bikini
Content:
Body: 72% Nylon, 28% Spandex.
Crotch Lining: 100% Cotton.
Exclude trim.
Country of Origin: Made in China

Jacqueline Low Rise Bikini

Scalloped lace trim - Constructed of sheer, stretch lace - Moderate coverage smooth microfiber back panel - Classic fit bikini panty - Daringly low, 3.5 inch rise
Cosabella: Jacqueline Low Rise Bikini
Content: 84% Polyamide, 12% Spandex, 2% Rayon, 2% Cotton.
Country of Origin: Made in Italy

Scarlett Bikini

Beautiful, floral lace detail at front - Thin, elastic waistband - Moderate coverage bikini panty
Sheer, stretch tulle - Sweet bow and keyhole detail in back - Really low, 6 inch rise
Le Mystère no.9: Scarlett Bikini
Content:
Lace: 77% Nylon, 23% Spandex.
Fabric: 85% Nylon, 15% Spandex.
Lining: 100% Cotton.
Country of Origin: Made in China

Jolie Madame Brazilian Bikini

Tri-fold detail at front waistband - Sophisticated and truly luxurious - Sweet and chic bikini - Constructed of ultra-sheer stretch tulle - Delicate embroidery on scalloped trim - Daringly low, 3 inch rise
La Perla Glamour: Jolie Madame Brazilian Bikini Content:
Content: 65% Polyamide/Nylon, 15% Elastane/Spandex, 10% Viscose/Rayon, 5% Cotton, 5% Polyester.
Country of Origin: Made in Italy