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The bikini is 60!


Reard and Heim were actually rivals, each competing to create the world's first revolutionary two-piece swimsuit. Heim surfaced first with something called an Atome, named after the particle. He called it the 'world's smallest bathing suit.'

Reard went a step further, working with just 27.5 inches and dropping the bottom half of his two-piece suit below the navel. It was shocking, but people couldn't keep their eyes off it.

They still can't.

Photograph: Scott Barbour/Getty Images

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