One Million Years B.C. - Fur Bikini

Fur Bikini

Welch stated in a 2012 interview that three form-fitting bikinis were made for her, including 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." Welch was described in the studio's advertising as "wearing mankind's first bikini" and the fur bikini was described as a "definitive look of the 1960s". One author said, "although she had only three lines in the film, her luscious figure in a fur bikini made her a star and the dream girl of millions of young moviegoers." The photo of Welch in the fur bikini was turned into a best-selling pinup poster. Later, on TV, actress Jennifer O'Dell did a 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. In 2011, Time listed Welch's B.C fur bikini in the "Top Ten Bikinis in Pop Culture".