Bikini variants the most diverse range of bikini merchandises. Bikini tops come in several different styles and cuts, including a halter-style neck that offers more coverage and support, a strapless bandeau, a rectangular strip of fabric covering the breasts that minimizes large breasts, a top with cups similar to a push-up bra, and the more traditional triangle cups that lift and shape the breasts. There are four fundamental types of bare-midriff bikini tops: the "brassière", "halter", "bandeau", and "vest". These styles are differentiated by the number of shoulder straps and the resultant number of edges to the garment. Some of these tops
Bandeau linen that was wrapped across the breasts and tied or pinned at the back. As a silhouette the bandeau was also worn in Roman times. Archaeologist James Mellaart described the earliest bandeau-like costume in Çatalhöyük, Anatolia in the Chalcolithic era (around 5600 BC), where a mother goddess is depicted astride two leopards wearing a costume somewhat like a modern bandeau-style bikini. In the Greco-Roman world, women athletes wearing two-piece garments were depicted on urns and paintings dating back to 1400 BC. In the floor of "Coronation of the Winner" hall of Villa Romana del Casale, a Roman villa in Sicily