# Rudi Gernreich's pubikini - This, I gotta see! **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 29, 2008, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudi-gernreichs-pubikini-this-i-gotta-see/470091 "2008-10-29T15:17:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2022, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudi-gernreichs-pubikini-this-i-gotta-see/470091/21 "2022-05-26T02:51:05Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > There is a point at which you do have to wonder why you’d bother wearing anything at all Back in the late 1980s in Las Vegas I attended an office Halloween party. Things were a **LOT** looser then and there versus the current uptight corporate mores. A plump middle-aged lady showed up in a costume which was mostly a black leotard & stockings plus ballet slippers. So far so ordinary. But it had circular bandaids over where her nipples would be and a large tapered jug cork attached at her crotch. She said iher costume was “The bikini of the future: two bandaids and a cork.” She won the prize that night. This pubikini thing has a long way to go to catch up to dear old what’s-her-name. Who’d be about 80 right now. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2022, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudi-gernreichs-pubikini-this-i-gotta-see/470091/22 "2022-05-30T00:05:59Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > I got another Popular Link for the Helmut Newton photo. > > You’re all perverts! I bet I get a bunch of awards for this link. > > [Link](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Porn) Yes! Less than a week to 50 hits! Let’s try this one. [kinikini](https://www.arubatoday.com/birds-of-aruba-5/14-birds-of-aruba-kinikini/) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2022, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudi-gernreichs-pubikini-this-i-gotta-see/470091/23 "2022-05-30T00:18:42Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Let’s try this one. She might as well be naked!! ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2022, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudi-gernreichs-pubikini-this-i-gotta-see/470091/24 "2022-05-30T00:51:46Z")
I think he also designed the uniforms for Moonbase Alpha from Space:1999. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2022, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudi-gernreichs-pubikini-this-i-gotta-see/470091/25 "2022-05-30T06:19:35Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Yes! Less than a week to 50 hits! > > Let’s try this one. > > [kinikini](https://www.arubatoday.com/birds-of-aruba-5/14-birds-of-aruba-kinikini/) Nice tail. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2022, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudi-gernreichs-pubikini-this-i-gotta-see/470091/26 "2022-10-12T17:29:39Z")
I don’t know why I saw this just now, but cool. Thanks for the link. I certainly approve of Rudy’s final creation. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2022, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudi-gernreichs-pubikini-this-i-gotta-see/470091/27 "2022-10-12T22:14:15Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > > [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > > > Note that the garment does not match either the image in the older link or the initial description of revealing the pubic hair. > > It looks to me, however, like it would show pubic hair where the blue-green rectangle is. I’m not entirely sure what it is. It’s the girl from the cover of the novel _Kyrik: Warlock Warrior_ > [@kenobi\_65](#): > > > [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > > > Let’s try this one. > > She might as well be naked!! [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/6DpLYHKzqbE/hqdefault.jpg "Muppet Show: Sam Eagle on Nudity") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DpLYHKzqbE) ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2022, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudi-gernreichs-pubikini-this-i-gotta-see/470091/28 "2022-10-12T23:43:26Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Remember, kids, publicity stunts can kill you. Still, that’s a hell of a last photo. I like modern and abstract art. I enjoy art that pushes the boundary and such, but I absolutely don’t get how couture designers get so famous - or for that matter, make money. I mean, lets face it, that’s not good design - it’s just shock design. And am I weird for not understanding a gay man’s obsession with exposing a woman’s naughty bits in public - not that I object mind you… ---
**Author:** ![Isilder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@Isilder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isilder)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2022, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudi-gernreichs-pubikini-this-i-gotta-see/470091/29 "2022-10-12T23:50:49Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Note that the garment does not match either the image in the older link or the initial description of revealing the pubic hair. I think the later picture is saying " See, I was right !". The idea was really that Gernreichs pubikini was really commentary on censorship and trends. With the brazillian wax, the tiny bikini could reveal what was the public hair area… and yet the censors were still censoring public hair. So the photo with the coloured pubic bone area was saying, is it a tattoo, is it body paint, is it public hair , is it part of the pubikini ? Well anyway it says "hey if they can show area with hair removed, why can’t it be shown with hair ??? ". Its not a concept that Gernreich invented, “hair nude” soft pornographic art was invented in Japan ? And Brook shields didnt show public hair, it was a hairy bikini so that didnt break any guideline about pubic hair and children and so on. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2022, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudi-gernreichs-pubikini-this-i-gotta-see/470091/30 "2022-10-13T02:43:32Z")
> [@Isilder](#): > > And Brook shields didnt show public hair, it was a hairy bikini so that didnt break any guideline about pubic hair and children and so on. I am so not going to Google that. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2022, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudi-gernreichs-pubikini-this-i-gotta-see/470091/31 "2022-10-13T15:29:32Z")
Italics mine: > [@Isilder](#): > > I think the later picture is saying " See, I was right !". > > The idea was really that Gernreichs pubikini was really commentary on censorship and trends. With the brazillian wax, the tiny bikini could reveal what was the _public_ hair area… and yet the censors were still censoring _public_ hair. So the photo with the coloured pubic bone area was saying, is it a tattoo, is it body paint, is it _public_ hair , is it part of the pubikini ? Well anyway it says "hey if they can show area with hair removed, why can’t it be shown with hair ??? ". > > Its not a concept that Gernreich invented, “hair nude” soft pornographic art was invented in Japan ? > And Brook shields didnt show _public_ hair, it was a hairy bikini so that didnt break any guideline about pubic hair and children and so on. Auto-spell-correct is not always our friend. Although given that the whole point of Gernreich’s invention was to render public something that usually isn’t, perhaps that’s just inspired editing. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rudi-gernreichs-pubikini-this-i-gotta-see/470091.md?page=1)