Summer Postcards: Topless Sunbathing

The golden age of topless sunbathing in France lasted a little over a decade, from the 1970s to the tail end of the 1980s. French women pioneered it and were also first to abandon it. But how and why? Muriel retraces the story of a particular aspect of Gallic art de vivre which was highly codified and attempted to recast the social contract between women and society. How natural was it? How cultural? Did it have more to do with feminism – of the French kind – or with fashion? And what would Coco Chanel have made of it? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.