White bikini of Ursula Andress buckles and fittings, and a scabbard on the left side to hold a large knife. The first bikini had been worn at a Paris fashion show in 1946, but in the 1950s the bikini was still seen as something of a taboo. Andress' bikini arrived at a key moment in the history of women's fashion, coming at the "birth of the sexual revolution": the 1960s. In the corresponding scene of the original novel, the character Honeychile Rider wears only a leather belt with a scabbard, and no bikini. Andress designed the bikini along with "Dr. No"s costume designer Tessa Prendergast,
Anita Ekberg Ryder in "Dr. No", but the role went to the then-unknown Ursula Andress. However Broccoli then cast her in "Call Me Bwana" (1963) with Bob Hope. ("Call Me Bwana" featured in the second Bond film, "From Russia with Love", during a sequence where Ali Kerim Bey assassinates the Russian agent Krilencu with a sniper rifle. Krilencu attempts to escape through a window, which is situated in Anita Ekberg's mouth, on the wall-sized poster: "She should have kept her mouth shut," Bond says.) Ekberg co-starred with Andress, Frank Sinatra, and Dean Martin in the western-comedy "4 for Texas" (1963). She returned