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i_hope_you_are_okay t1_j244uvi wrote

Was it really a trend or just women trying to avoid bikini tan lines…

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notbob1959 t1_j24i1fu wrote

And it was probably around from when the bikini first came out.

I can't link to it directly because the spam filter in this sub deletes comments with external links but the following incomplete link which can be copied and pasted to your browser and goes to a photo of a woman topless sunbathing on a Cannes, France beach in 1948 (two years after Louis Réard introduced the modern bikini):

gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/view-as-a-lady-sun-bathes-topless-on-the-beach-in-cannes-news-photo/451093785

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