From hiding women's bodies at the beach to the thong...in 100 years
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 11.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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If women in the 1800s wanted to take a swim, they were pulled into the surf in a cabana on wheels, wearing 30 pounds of wet wool. So how did we get to the bikini, much less the thong?
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, why were women wearing 30 pounds of wet wool for a dip in the ocean just over a century ago? |
| 0:06.1 | And how do we fast forward to string bikinis, thongs, and speedos? |
| 0:10.5 | E. Yuck, speedos. |
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| 1:15.2 | on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. We all know we're going to see a lot of naked flesh when we go to the beach, right? |
| 1:28.0 | String bikinis, thongs, speedos, yuck, sorry but yuck. |
| 1:33.0 | But I'm going to tell you how the first bikini got its look and its name. |
| 1:37.0 | However, first, there's a pretty fascinating backstory to that evolution, |
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