Front Zipper Swimsuit
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Front Zipper Suimsuit (Japanese: フロントジッパー競泳水着; Front Zipper Kyōei Mizugi) is a high-necked swimsuit which features a double zipper in the front. Following on Keyhole Turtleneck in the end of 2014, this sexy swimsuit became to a popular fetish item for moe illustrators in the Japanese otaku culture in the spring of 2015.
Origin
According to Pixiv Encyclopedia[1] and Nico Nico Pedia,[2] this fetish meme started on Twitter by the official account of Japanese fetish sports costume brand REALISE[3] in March 6th, 2015. The tweet, introducing its new product, named "Front Zipper Swimsuit for Competitive Swimming," accompied by several pictures, had earned over thousands of retweets and favorites within the first few hours due to its overt sexiness.
来ました！ フロントジッパー競泳水着！
これで全面を切り裂く愚行を撲滅出来ます！笑 pic.twitter.com/a935YoLMS4— REALISE (@realise55) March 6, 2015
Translation:
Finally! Here comes the front zipper swimsuit! It must eliminate all follies to rip the front of swimsuits! (lol
The following day, the Twitter account revealed their product had already been nicknamed as "That Swimsuit,"[4] which was influenced by both That Pool, an iconic location in Japanese pornography due to its frequent usage as a set; and That Turtleneck, an alias for the Keyhole Turtleneck.
Spread
Likewise to the online craze for the sexy keyhole turtleneck in the previous year, Front Zipper Swimsuit inspired many amateur illustrators. Soon enough, a vast amount of moe illustrations featuring this sexy swimsuit began flooding on the online illustrator communities Pixiv[5] and Nico Nico Seiga.[6] However, the flooding didn't last so long because of the advent of Hestia's Boob Ribbon in the following month.
This online fetish fad was reported by Pixiv's art news section Pixiv Spotlight,[7] several Japanese online gossip news media[8][9] as well as English news blog Rocketnews24[10] and Taiwanese online news media gammenews a few months later.[11] Since then, the swimsuit has still remained as one of the popular sexy costumes for moe illustrations and cosplayers.
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[1] Pixiv Encyclopedia – フロントジッパー競泳水着
[2] Nico Nico Pedia – フロントジッパー競泳水着
[3] Twitter – REALISE (@realise55) [NSWF!!]
[4] Twitter – REALISE on Twitter: "すでに『例の競泳水着』って呼ばれてます！ http://t.co/1ZRQXbfZxx" / Posted on 03-07-2015 (Japanese)
[5] Pixiv – Search results for the tag フロントジッパー競泳水着
[6] Nico Nico Seiga – Search results for the tag フロントジッパー競泳水着
[7] pixiv Spotlight – Sport swimsuits with front zippers! / 03-09-2015
[8] KAI-YOU – 恐ろしい破壊力…！ フロントジッパー競泳水着イラストまとめ / 03-10-2015 (Japanese)
[9] ITmedia Netlab – 胸元あらわな「フロントジッパー競泳水着」に絵師が反応 例のタートルネックの次はこれか！ / 2015-03-13 (Japanese)
[10] RocketNews24 – New “front zipper swimsuit” craze triggers a wave of booby fan-art on Twitter / 03-16-2015
[11] 宅宅新聞 – 《開胸競泳泳衣》該是放上真人實穿的福利圖時間惹 / 07-01-2015 (Chinese)
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