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,
Bikini in popular culture Kelly Killoren Bensimon wrote in "The Bikini Book", "It was really all about Annette Funicello. If the girl next door wanted to wear a bikini, then everybody wanted to wear a bikini. We didn't want to be a bad Bond girl. We all really wanted to be the good girl." In 1962, an icon was born as Bond girl Ursula Andress emerged from the sea wearing a white bikini in "Dr. No". The "Dr. No" bikini scene has been quoted as one of the most memorable scenes from the British spy film series. That white bikini has been described as