Bikini Bathing Suit appeared on the French Beaches in 1947. The man who gets the credit for inventing the modern Bikini is Louis Réard a french engineer. He named the bikini after Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific. The string and thong bikini's are now appearing on beaches all over the world. The string bikini gets its name from the fact that its made basically from strings. Some Beach Communities in the USA south have banned the string bikini's. But world wide the string bikini is now the most popular bikini worldwide. And a micro bikini is a extremely skimpy bikini made popular at first on the beaches of Australia. But its a interesting fact that the micro bikini was first worn on Venus Beach in California.