[lit-ideas] Re: Bombshells
- From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 16:23:59 -0700
David Ritchie wrote
'Jantzen's suit came out in 1913. Lots of two-piece designs followed.
In the U.S. the convention was that a woman's navel must be covered. In
France, after the war, a suit named "bikini" was a design response to a
one piece suit by a rival designer, one which, because it was small, had
been called the "Atome." What to call a split Atome, one that might be
worn by "bombshells"? Name it after the atoll where the French were
exploding bombs.'
Not really. The French tested bombs elsewhere in the Pacific, but never
on Bikini atoll, which was, as far as I can determine, subjected to
benign destruction only by the US.
The first French test of an atomic weapon, Gerboise Bleue, took place in
the Algerian Sahara, in 1960. Here are some gerboises hopping around.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7uw5HLMuP0
Robert Paul
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