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Whether you are the Jaws type or The Little Mermaid type, you’ll love this clever swimsuit that features both! Link -via Geeks Are Sexy
In 1976, the late Farrah Fawcett posed for photographer Bruce McBoom, who captured the image to the left. This picture was turned into a mass produced poster, which became an icon of American culture during the 1970s. The red swimsuit that she wore for that photo shoot has been donated to the Smithsonian Institution:
Farrah’s longtime boyfriend, Ryan O’Neal, and her nephew, Greg Walls, donated iconic items from her estate to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History for inclusion in their pop culture collection.
“I don’t think that Farrah realized the impact that poster would have on the world,” Ryan said. “She was one of a kind. She had energy and an aura I have never seen before or since. She was magnificent.”
There’s a video of the donation ceremony at the link.
Gorgeous women in bikinis do not usually bring to mind the image of the arctic, but that’s exactly what Canadian magazine Up Here wanted you to think about when it released its first ever swimsuit edition:
The 26-year-old northern Canadian magazine, Up Here, has published its first swimsuit issue to draw attention to climate change.
Its latest edition, out this week, features 10 swimsuit-clad women posing in threatened northern landscapes such as burnt-out forests and melting icescapes.
Why swimsuits?
"When you want to get attention in a room full of people talking, you tend to yell," writes Tim Querengesser on Up Here’s blog. "So, when we decided to dedicate an entire issue to climate change in the North…we knew we’d have to yell to be heard above the already deafening howl."
Link | Up Here magazine post, where sadly there’s no more details on the swimsuit edition
It has always been my habit to give an idea – any idea – a fighting chance to percolate in my mind for a while, letting it have full reign to explore its own possibilities. The flip side of this liberal and undisciplined attitude towards my own ideas is that they may seem irresistible and attractive even after their flaws are already apparent. Take my idea for Inflatable Swimwear. Was it really an idea worth elaborating, wasting my time on? The disadvantages of inflatable swimwear were immediately obvious! It is not only the opposite of sleek looking, but it presents an obstacle, even when not inflated, to rapid and efficient swimming.
Yet it seems I did not know when to stop once I got this idea. Wishing to improve on it, I worried about the way an inflated top of a two-piece swimsuit would likely ride up around the neck while swimming, possibly exposing the breasts. I addressed that flaw by creating a full body inflatable suit, as shown in yellow.
Thinking further, I wondered how such a suit might be inflated quickly and easily, given that blowing it up by mouth – as anyone who has blown up an air mattress by mouth on a camping trip can attest – is tiring and takes seemingly forever. Here, I adapted several items, commonly worn at the beach or swimming pool, as air pumps.
Naturally, an inflatable swimsuit would be cause for snickering and derisive laughter. Yet if a life were saved, who would be laughing then?
The style choices for a man’s inflatable swimsuit would, according to present standards of allowable public nudity, allow for two options. The suit could either be worn as trunks or as a single-piece, full body suit, similar in appearance to the modest style favored by male and female swimmers during the Victorian era.
More study is needed. If the inflatable chambers were placed mostly on the front side of the suit, such a design would tend to pull the swimmer over onto his or her back, which might make it difficult to swim, or to keep the head raised. Thinking more broadly, if getting an all-day sunburn – a burn on the front side of the body only – is desired, it would be easy to create a swimsuit that includes an inflatable raft on the back side that also supports the head. It could even include a hole for holding drinks. Excuse me, while I head to the drafting table to work on it!
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