Swimsuit

A swimsuit (also swimmers), bathing suit (also bathers) or swimming costume (sometimes shortened to cozzie) is an item of clothing designed to be worn for swimming. Swimsuits are typically skin-tightobcisły, przylegający do ciała clothing, and range from garmentsgarment: ubranie, strój designed to preserve as much modestyskromność as possible to garmentsgarment: ubranie, strój designed to revealodkrywać, odsłaniać, ujawniać as much of the body as possible without actual nuditynagość. They are often lined with fabrictkanina, materiał that assures that they do not become transparentprzezroczysty when wet.

Swimsuits are generally designed to cover at least the genitalia. In some cultures women's swimsuits do not cover the breasts, though in most western countries this is not the norm; for pre-pubescentprzed okresem dojrzewania płciowego girls they may or may not cover the chest. Swimming without a bathing suit is a form of nudism; special beaches may be reserved for nude sunbathing and swimming (nude beaches). Swimming in the nude is also known by the slang term skinny-dipping.

Men's swimsuits tend to be shorts or briefsmajtki, slipy, or cut-off jeans.

Women's swimsuits are generally either one-piecejednoczęściowy swimsuits or bikinis. Also there is the monokini, in case the coverage of the breasts is neither required nor desired. However, special swimsuits for competitive swimming, designed to reduce skin dragopór ciała, can resemble unitardsunitard: jednoczęściowy strój noszony przez akrobatów, gimnastyków i tancerzy.

For some kinds of swimming and diving, special bodysuits called diveskins are worn. They are made from spandexsztuczny, elastyczny materiał and provide little thermal protectionochrona przed utratą ciepła but simply protect the skin from stingssting: oparzenie, ukłucie and abrasionotarcie, zadrapanie.

Swimsuits are also worn for the purpose of body display in beauty pageantsbeauty pageant: konkurs piekności. The magazine Sports Illustrated has an annual "swimsuit issue" that features models and sports personalities in swimsuits.

Swimsuits are also worn on beaches and around swimming pools (even if no swimming is involved). Many authorities believe that children of both sexes should also wear T-shirts outdoors on sunny days to protect from sunburn.

Women's "high-thigh" swimsuits can reveal pubic hairwłosy łonowe, and hencedlatego, stąd requires wearers to depilate their pubic hairwłosy łonowe if they want to avoid its exposurewystawienie się na, ekspozycja, ujawnienie. This is commonly referred to as the bikini line, (e.g. "I waxed my legs and bikini line before going to the beach").

As an alternative to a bathing suit some people use their trousers, underpantsmajtki, kalesony and or T-shirt as make-shift swimsuit. At beaches norms for this tend to be more relaxed than at swimming pools (especially indoor ones). However, swimming pools tend not to permit this, because underwearbielizna is unlinedbez podszewki, may become translucentprzezroczysty, półprzezroczysty and, may be unclean.

History
In Classical antiquity swimming and bathing was most often done nude. In some settings coverings were used. Murals at Pompeii show women wearing two-piece suits covering the areas around their breasts and hips in a fashion remarkably similar to a bikini of c. 1960. After this, the notionwyobrażenie, pojęcie, pragnienie of special water apparelstrój, szata seems to have been lost for centuries.

In the 18th century women wore "bathing gownsgown: suknia, szata" in the water; these were long dresses of fabrics that would not become transparentprzezroczysty when wet, with weights sewedto sew: zszywać, przyszywać into the hemshem: rąbek, skraj so that they would not rise up in the water. The men's swim suit, a rather form fitting woolwełniany garment with long sleeves and legs, similar to long underwearbielizna, was developed and would change little for a century.

In the 19th century, the woman's two piece suit became common-- the two pieces being a gown from shoulder to knees plus a set of trousers with leggings going down to the ankles. In the Victorian era, popular beach resortsresort: miejscowość wypoczynkowa, kurort were commonly equipped with bathing machinesbathing machine: przebieralnia dla kąpiących się, with the purpose of avoiding exposurewystawienie się na, ekspozycja, ujawnienie of people in swimsuits (even though these were very modest by today's standards), especially to people of the opposite sex.

In 1907 the swimmer Annette Kellerman from Australia visited the United States as an "underwater ballerina", a version of synchronized swimming, involving diving into glass tanks. She was arrested for indecentnieprzywoity, gorszący exposurewystawienie się na, ekspozycja, ujawnienie, as her swimsuit showed arms, legs and the neck. Kellerman changed the suit to have long arms and legs, and a collarkołnierz, still keeping the close fitdopasowanie revealing the shapes underneathpod spodem, pod, poniżej. She later starredto star: grać główną rolę in several movies, including one about her life.

After this, bathing wear began being less conservative, first uncovering the arms and then the legs up to mid-thigh. Collars recededto recede: oddalać się, odchodzić from up around the neck down to about mid-way between the neck and nipplesnipple: brodawka sutkowa. The development of new fabrics allowed for new varieties of more comfortable and practical swim wear. On some beaches in the United States, men were prohibited from going topless as late as the 1930s.

Due to the figure-huggingprzyleganie do ciała nature of these garmentsgarment: ubranie, strój, glamor photography of the 1940s and 1950s often featured people wearing swimsuits. This subsetpodzestaw, podzbiór of glamour photography eventually evolvedto evolve: ewalouwać, rozwijać się, przekształcać into swimsuit photography with the help of Sports Illustrated and swimsuit photographers around the world.

The first bikinis were introduced just after World War II. Early examples were not very different from the women's two pieces common since the 1920s, except that they had a gap below the breast line allowing for a section of bare midriffbrzuch, talia. They were named after Bikini Atoll, the site of nuclear weapons testsmiejsce przeprowadzania testów nad bronią jądrową, for their supposedprzypuszczalny, rzekomy, domniemany explosivewybuchowy effect on the viewer. Through the 1950s, it was thought proper for the lower part of the bikini to come up high enough to cover the navelpępek.

From the 1960s on the bikini shrankto shrink: kurczyć się, zmniejszać się in all directions until it sometimes covered little more than the nipplesnipple: brodawka sutkowa and genitalia, although less revealing models giving more support to the breasts remained popular. At the same time, Fashion designer Rudi Gernreich introduced the monokini, a topless suit for women consisting of a modest bottom supported by two thin strapsstrap: rzemień, rzemyk, pasek, trok. Although not a commercial success, the suit opened eyes to new design possibilities.

In the 1980s the thong or "tanga" came out of Brazil, said to have been inspired by traditional garmentsgarment: ubranie, strój of native tribes in the Amazon.

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