In a Shakespearean twist, the Brits are asking Should you go topless – or not? (The Guardian, July 23).
In this piece while Joanna Moorhead considers the practice as liberating, Zoe Williams states that "Sunbathing topless is a French thing, while wandering around entirely naked is a German/Austrian thing" and that "Toplessness is not about practicality, it's about glamour. I emphatically don't mean "glamour" as in "glamour model". I mean glamour in the old world sense that one's own judgment is unimpeachable. After all, what kind of a person would stare and point and laugh? An unsophisticated person. Probably an English person."
The story has been the fashion buzz in the past week or so in besides The Guardian, Jezebel and the pages of NY Magazine and Time magazine.
Was the practice limited to France anyway.
I once saw three generations of dutch women practicing it near Barcelona, Spain.
Is it all about how your attributes look after all?
Should we blame the changes as much on tanning salons as on cancer fears.
Sea sex and sun to paraphrase Serge Gainsbourg