Fur bikini of Raquel Welch

Fur bikini of Raquel Welch
Designer Carl Toms[1]
Year 1962
Type Bikini
Material Fur

The fur bikini of Raquel Welch refers to the fur/animal hide bikini worn by Raquel Welch in the 1966 film One Million Years BC. She was described as "wearing mankind's first bikini" and the bikini was described as a "definitive look of the 1960s".[2][3]

Background

Welch stated in a 2012 interview that three form-fitting bikinis were made for her, including two for a wet scene and a fight scene, by costume designer Carl Toms: "Carl just draped me in doe-skin, and I stood there while he worked on it with scissors."[4] The iconic pose of Welch was taken by the unit still photographer (as recalled by Welch in an interview[4]).

In popular culture

Later, on TV, actress Jennifer O'Dell paid tribute to Welch when she wore a loin cloth style bikini that looked like Welch's fur one. O'Dell played a girl of the jungles named Veronica on the TV show Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World.

References

  1. ↑ Wayne Kinsey, Hammer Films: The Bray Studio Years, Reynolds & Hearn, 2002
  2. ↑ Filmfacts. 1967. Retrieved 24 May 2011.
  3. ↑ Mansour, David (1 June 2005). From Abba to Zoom: a pop culture encyclopedia of the late 20th century. Andrews McMeel Publishing. p. 345. ISBN 9780740751189. Retrieved 24 May 2011.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Spitznagel, Eric (March 8, 2012). "Interview with Raquel Welch". Men's Health. Retrieved 25 November 2012.