Twenty five years ago when I first visited Saint Tropez, almost all the women on the beaches were topless. It didn’t matter how old they were, it was standard. By and large, if memory serves and these images, I can assure you, are engraved in my mind, there were many many gorgeous females. Some wore sarongs and strings of pearls between their breasts. The female form in all its glory was a priceless feature of the Côte d’Azur and it was considered bad form to wear a top. Even my beautiful wife, gaining courage, unveiled her full upper form, despite the fact that people she knew from New York suddenly appeared. Remarkably, everyone seemed comfortable with the idea, especially the women.
Alas, those days are over. Topless is, sadly, out. I’m not sure what this signifies, perhaps some changing mores. Perhaps the French have become too uptight. Who knows? In a sad way, the topless exit, does diminish the joy of the beaches of the Côte d’Azur. There are some women who have bucked the trend, but the days when it was an essential part of the scene seems over. Perhaps this sounds sexist to those to whom being politically correct is essential to the conversation. Frankly, I don’t care. I am unalterably opposed to anything that suggests political correctness. And I am not in the least opposed to the topless females that made the beaches of the Côte d’Azur so wonderful.
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Topless was in vogue on the beaches of Anse Mitan, Martinique, in 1977, and those French girls on vacation looked splendid in the sun! And they were topless in Guadaloupe in 1980. Ah, there is something about suntanned breasts, something comforting; makes you feel like something beautiful that was kept in the dark for so long has finally been brought to the light. I haven’t been back to the French Isles, but I refuse to believe that topless is out. Is the world really getting that crazy? Mon Dieu!
Could it just be the changing attitudes towards exposure–the fear of skin cancer even with some of the incredibly high SPF factors that can be had in sun block creams? I would otherwise agree and hope it has nothing to do with changing mores or political correctness.
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I have been to cote d’ azur many times and my opinion is that the current issue
of Sports Illustrated is far more classy than in the flesh!
Pick up a copy of the new Sports Illustrated, check out the painted bodies!