Snack sizes â miniature versions of a chocolate candy bar â are especially popular with trick-or-treaters on Halloween. While most of the top standard size brands also rank among the highest for sales of snack-size chocolate, there are some exceptions.
19-year-old Micheline Bernardini, wearing the first bikini with a newspaper-print design in 1946, while displaying a matchbox capable of holding the entire outfit. Wikimedia Commons.
French fashion historian Olivier Saillard attributes the popularity of the bikini to the power of women, and not the power of fashion. By the first decade of the twenty-first century, bikinis had become an $811 million business annually.