Monday 13 September 2021

Similar, yet different


Since the dawn of art, fanservice has been one of the most recurring themes in the history of art, illustrations and photography. The obsession with scanty female clothing takes the lion's share of fanservice, and it does not help when several female garments look similar to each other.

It is possible that leotards and lingerie may have influence swimwear designers to design new female swimsuits. The leotard's design may have been the inspiration for the female one-piece swimsuit that we are all familiar with today, and the bikini's design could have been inspired by female undergarments. While the designs of male undergarments get their inspiration from shorts worn by boxers, which we get boxer shorts from, and later on, swimming trunks, female swimsuit designs got their inspiration from bras, panties and leotards. In other words, fashion designers have unknowingly created aquatic versions of the bra, the panty and the leotard, all of which were not designed for swimming.

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