In Borat: Cultural Leanings of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, Sacha Baron Cohen's 2006 film, the comedian put on a neon sling and started a craze.
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Getting in on the fun—and the attention—was John Mayer, who channeled Borat on his boat, the Mayercraft.
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Richard Sarsfield, a British cyclist, slipped on a Borat-inspired mankini for a charity ride for the Prince's Trust—45 miles from Buckingham Palace to Windsor Castle, in a thong.
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Alexander McQueen toyed with Borat's cultural meme when he sent a T-strapping mankini down the Milan runway in 2008.
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This year in Milan, Emporio Armani debuted a Gothic mankini that looks like Speedo's foray into bondage gear.
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This summer, London gentlemen dressed as 'greedy businessmen' wearing mankinis stand next to Serpentine Lake in Hyde Park for a cellphone promotion on June 16, 2010. What the mankini's relationship to taxes or cell phones is remains to be seen—plenty else is seen, however.
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On a sunny day in 2008, Jim Carrey hit the beach in regular wear, but once he spotted paparazzi, ducked into his beach house and reemerged in then-girlfriend Jenny McCarthy's swimsuit—effectively a mankini.
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Official wrestling costumes share the mankini style, but perhaps without the tongue-in-cheek humor of Borat's favorite costume.
Johnny Depp wore an old-timey men's bathing costume for his role in Sweeney Todd. Cut off the legs and arms, and you have a striped mankini.
