She wore an itsy bitsy teeny weenie yellow polka dot bikini!

While the weather in Podunk is not conducive to a bikini fashion show, it’s a Happy 60th for the smidgeon of cloth that became a fashion statement for the world.

While many suggest that the bikini is but a continuation of a clothing line from the days of the Ancient Egyptians, it’s been really the latter 20th century creation that seems to have stood the test of time.

The bikini made its present entry to the fashion world sixty years today, created by an automotive engineer and was an instant failure only to lift itself back into the fashion world for good a few years later.

Condemned by the Vatican, and banned by Italy, Spain and Portugal it wouldn’t be until the mid fifties before it finally claimed victory and revolutionized the fashion scene.

It was ably assisted by the likes of Marilyn Monroe, Rita Hayworth, Jayne Mansfield and Bridget Bardot (who judging from recent photos probably doesn’t quite fit the bill anymore).

Now it accounts for the bulk of beachwear every summer, not bad for a couple of pieces of cloth.