![Lo Que Pasó en la Historia: July 5th: Bikini bathing dress goes on public sale on a display outdoor pool Molitor in Paris, in 1946. Lo Que Pasó en la Historia: July 5th: Bikini bathing dress goes on public sale on a display outdoor pool Molitor in Paris, in 1946.](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QhBQvilC5DA/VW7uAhPUgyI/AAAAAAAAIIw/W4zthe4T_7s/s400/1.%2BPiazzaArmerina-Mosaik-Bikini.jpg)
Lo Que Pasó en la Historia: July 5th: Bikini bathing dress goes on public sale on a display outdoor pool Molitor in Paris, in 1946.
![You can't call it bikini unless it passes this one test, according to the man who invented it | The Sun You can't call it bikini unless it passes this one test, according to the man who invented it | The Sun](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/KH-COMPOSITE-BIKINI-V2.jpg?strip=all&quality=100&w=750&h=500&crop=1)
You can't call it bikini unless it passes this one test, according to the man who invented it | The Sun
Louis Réard, the inventor of bikini, with a model in 1946. Not many people know this, but he named his creation after the Bikini Atoll… | Instagram
![Louis Reard, inventor of the modern bikini, hired a nude model, Micheline Bernardini, to wear it for introducing it on July 5th 1946. : r/Damnthatsinteresting Louis Reard, inventor of the modern bikini, hired a nude model, Micheline Bernardini, to wear it for introducing it on July 5th 1946. : r/Damnthatsinteresting](https://i.redd.it/hfhwv5z8z7n61.jpg)