fast forward to the 1950s. and a beach obsession was sweeping the nation. beach themed movies flooding theaters and vacationers flocking to california and america s newest state, hawaii. i love hawaii. swimsuits have evolved into the shape we know today. like the ones, burt lancaster and deborah kerr wore in the epic beach scene from here to eternity. swimsuits got steamy, bikini, who can forget? beautiful ursula andres one of the poster girls here, in the first james bond movie dr. no emerging from the water wearing a bikini and a knife. the two-piece suit was the brain child of french fashion designers, named it after the bikini etol, the site of a nuclear bomb test. they knew their bikini would be explosive. in 1964 bikini wearing models graced sports illustrated s