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Dates: during 2000-2009
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In France, a New Generation of Women Says Non to Nude Sunbathing | 7/30/2009 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Tales Of The Naked City | 7/24/2000 | See Source »

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