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[4] [5] In 1600 BC, snake goddess figurines with open dress-fronts revealing entire breasts, were sculpted in Minos. [2] By that time, Cretan women in Knossos were wearing ornamental fitted bodices with open cleavage, sometimes with a peplum. [6] Another set of Minoan figurines from 1500 BC show women in bare-bosomed corsets. [7] [8]
Toplessness refers to the state in which a woman's breasts, including her areolas and nipples, are exposed, especially in a public place or in a visual medium. The male equivalent is known as barechestedness . Social norms around toplessness vary by context and location.
A recurrent representation of women in fantasy settings, originating in the 1960s, is the female warrior dressed in scanty armor. [78] They feature armor designs which have been described by such terms as " chainmail bikinis ", largely consisting of small decorative plaques that reveal large portions of the body to the weather and expose vital ...
August 13, 2024 at 6:39 PM. You have probably seen the viral photo of Sha'Carri Richardson from the 2024 Paris Olympics. The photo where Richardson confidently glances to her right en route to an ...
Modesty, sculpture by Louis-Léopold Chambard, 1861. Recreation on a California beach in the first decade of the 20th century. Modesty, sometimes known as demureness, is a mode of dress and deportment which intends to avoid the encouraging of sexual attraction in others. The word modesty comes from the Latin word modestus which means 'keeping ...
Cleavage (breasts) A woman's cleavage. Cleavage is the narrow depression or hollow between the breasts of a woman. The superior portion of cleavage may be accentuated by clothing such as a low-cut neckline that exposes the division, and often the term is used to describe the low neckline itself, instead of the term décolletage.
The 1960s were an age of fashion innovation for women. The early 1960s gave birth to drainpipe jeans and capri pants, a style popularized by Audrey Hepburn. [ 6] Casual dress became more unisex and often consisted of plaid button down shirts worn with slim blue jeans, comfortable slacks, or skirts.
In the United States, the Motion Picture Production Code, or Hays Code, enforced after 1934, banned the exposure of the female navel in Hollywood films. [3] The National Legion of Decency, a Roman Catholic body guarding over American media content, also pressured Hollywood to keep clothing that exposed certain parts of the female body, such as bikinis and low-cut dresses, from being featured ...