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We French women find that topless works best for those of us unfairly blessed with model-thin looks and flat-chests — the kind that allows you to wear any fashion, or indeed no fashion at all. Britain was never at the fighting front of topless bathing. Related Topics.
Related Topics. Honestly, when construction workers whistle at me in the street, I take it as a welcome pick-me-up, and walk with a jauntier step. It is not illegal to sunbathe topless in France, although local authorities can ban the practice with directives about clothing.
Comment Why topless sunbathing went out of fashion The French have always been proud of their tradition of topless sunbathing. One of my English colleagues recalls asking their teacher if they could wmen topless on their school French exchange in the Eighties. Now we have reconciled over its polar opposite. And so is fashion.
The one fashion plate who still sports a tan is, ificantly, the Louis-Vuitton armoured Brigitte Macron, 67 — a singularly unafraid woman. What followed from such a strong cultural tradition was probably to be expected.
The other is that I have, not to put a fine point on it, large boobs, given to unattractive wobbling — exactly the Donald McGill seaside postcard type kind that got one ogled even in the liberal Nineties. In Spain, many women, remembering the Franco years, make a political statement of going topless.
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To us French, your new prudishness looks like reverting to Victorian type. A survey by the website VieHealthy in showed the practice is less common in France now than it was in the past, and is less common than in other European countries. It comes as no surprise that the three women naied the Sainte Marie La Mer beach were in their 60s. They lived through the sexual revolution, when sex was good, female anked mattered, men were not the enemy, and the occasional cat-call was not confused with assault.
Our German neighbours now win in the topless stakes: 34 per cent of women there say they sunbathe topless or in the nude and in a country whose beaches are on the North Sea. The leggy, tanned models of the Nineties catwalks have been replaced by equally leggy, pale waifs Francce favoured by edgy deers and couture houses alike.
Some questioned a wave of "prudishness" sweeping France, while others questioned if the practice was now banned. Coco Chanel, who ushered in the new cult of sun worship a century ago, is now considered as the Mother of All Skin Cancers. But is the tide turning, and making us all more prudish?




