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by: Michael Rhodes - Thu, 23 Jun 2022 17:53 UTC

Australian fashion designer Paula Stafford, who introduced the bikini to Australia, has died at the age of 102.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-23/gold-coast-businesswoman-bikini-designer-paula-stafford-dies/101174424

Paula Stafford was born in 1920 and studied maths, chemistry, and physics at Melbourne Girls Grammar.

She introduced the bikini to Australia when the design was still considered controversial.

The Stafford bikini became synonymous with the Gold Coast in the 1950s and '60s at a time it was considered a beachside town.

Stafford's fashion empire included swimwear, day and evening wear, and men's wear, and by 1964 it was the second largest industry on the Gold Coast behind sand mining.

But when she cut her first one-piece swimsuit in half, Stafford said she had not even "heard the name 'bikini'".

"I called mine a two-piece," she said in a 2014 interview with the ABC.

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In article <0dc64bc3-b47a-45ca-aeda-19c161ff1c68n@googlegroups.com>,
Michael Rhodes <mig73allenford2002@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Australian fashion designer Paula Stafford, who introduced the bikini to
> Australia, has died at the age of 102.
>
>
> https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-23/gold-coast-businesswoman-bikini-designe
> r-paula-stafford-dies/101174424
>
> Paula Stafford was born in 1920 and studied maths, chemistry, and physics at
> Melbourne Girls Grammar.
>
> She introduced the bikini to Australia when the design was still considered
> controversial.
>
> The Stafford bikini became synonymous with the Gold Coast in the 1950s and
> '60s at a time it was considered a beachside town.
>
> Stafford's fashion empire included swimwear, day and evening wear, and men's
> wear, and by 1964 it was the second largest industry on the Gold Coast behind
> sand mining.
>
> But when she cut her first one-piece swimsuit in half, Stafford said she had
> not even "heard the name 'bikini'".
>
> "I called mine a two-piece," she said in a 2014 interview with the ABC.

She was the designer. Someone else was the marketer, thank goodness.
The story doesn't bother to mention that the bikini was named after a
Pacific atoll where the U.S. detonated nuclear weapons in atmospheric
tests during the 1950s.

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