Word: monokinis
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...early July, the French press has repeatedly sounded the alarm over the shrinking number of topless women on the nation's beaches. As eagle-eyed reporters have made quite clear, the prevailing trend among sun-loving women these days is to use both pieces of their bikini. Le Monokini, C'est Fini! , shouted Le Parisien in its report from a Mediterranean beach. "Nude Breasts Are Less Trendy" concurred free daily Metro France. "The practice has become common, and therefore less compelling as a fashion," says sociologist Jean-Claude Kaufmann. "When the local baker takes off her top despite...
...which is one of the most lively, entertaining and congested ports on the Mediterranean. Curious as to why everyone else around here is not a naturist, I approach a topless twentysomething woman on the Richelieu Beach who is attired--if that is the correct word--in a microscopic string monokini. Why, I ask her, isn't she over in the naturist colony to "see and be seen...
Since the czars of haute couture took over the swimsuit business, the world's girl watchers have zeroed in on the Diaper, the Thong, the String, the Monokini and now the Maillot. Unlike dryland, drawing-room fashion, which seeks to conceal and suggest, wisps for sun and surf can only show and tell. Therefore they are limited to a very few Gorgeous Girls who really have no need to advertise. En tout cas, as they say in Saint-Tropez, the GGs this summer can be seen supporting (barely) bikinis in stripes, or strapless, or black and white...
...presume that in the wake of the bikini and the monokini, as described in your article "The Naked and the Med" [Aug. 28], we shall soon be regaled on our beaches by the "nonokini." And after that, what...
...however, only nudity has reached epidemic proportions. The monokini, which first appeared in St.-Tropez two years ago has spread this year to the beaches of tonier Antibes, Juan-les-Pins and Sardinia. By now the fad has become so familiar that Le Figaro's food critic has commented that "a breast leaning into a local salad is as removed from sexuality as a nose, an ear or a heel bone...