Designer Carl Toms Type Bikini | Year 1962 (1962) Material Fur | |
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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".
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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." The iconic pose of Welch was taken by the unit still photographer.
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.