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Fifty years ago this October, Ursula Andress, clad in nothing more than a white cotton bikini with a makeshift knife holster, wandered out of the surf and into the imaginations of millions of filmgoers. By the following summer, when audiences around the world had seen “Dr. No,” the first James Bond thriller, and Ms. Andress, the first Bond girl, sales of bikinis, which had never quite taken off in this country finally did.

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