sailing braless!

[deniseO30]

here yah go! good reading! Bra History - Bras After 1950 - Undergarments fashion history

Bra History - Bras and Girdles - A Fashion History

This thread is lasting longer then the youth perkiness many of us once knew LOL

[PCP]

You mean, this lady was not wearing a wonder bra?



Regards

Paulo

[rhr1956]

Summer of 1974. Girlfriend wore cuttoffs (so short the pockets hung out), a tube top and flip flops. Talk about suitable attire for a spontanious quicky! Those were the days.

[JennSailsNJ]

I do. If I have guests aboard might be a different story however.

[zeehag]

some of the guys i have seen need to wear bras--they are too.........
as for sailing braless--we walk around in public sans bra--why not sail sans bra--is the world so uptight that this is a big deal????

[JennSailsNJ]

Well it doesnt matter to me, but my perception of decent may not be so for others.

[zeehag]

many still suffer from puritan ethic.

[PCP]

Originally Posted by zeehag

many still suffer from puritan ethic.

Europe is a lot more liberal about that. Around here it is not only frequent while sailing but also when the boat is on anchor to see the ladies getting a decent tan, on the breasts too.

60 years ago it was indecent for the men to show the breast also. My father told me that he was jailed for that....and he was in the river, rowing with 7 other guys on a racing shell. I guess that it will be only a question of time before people stop to be worried about public nakedness. After all everybody knows a woman is much more sexy in a tight bikini than naked (about guys I don't know).

[Squidd]

Originally Posted by rhr1956

Summer of 1974. Girlfriend wore cuttoffs (so short the pockets hung out), a tube top and flip flops. Talk about suitable attire for a spontanious quicky! Those were the days.

Ahh Yes...Those were the days...

Thank you...

[BubbleheadMd]

A couple of years ago, we were having a crew practice. In fact, I think Lapworth here on Sailnet was with me.

This boat sailed up alongside, very close. The sailors were 2 men and a woman, all very dark complected, tan, wearing thongs and banana-hammocks. We weren't put off by it, but we did laugh our a$$es off, commenting that they had to be European, and couldn't be Annapolitans, or they'd be pasty white, and covered from head to toe, wearing Tilly hats, with zinc paste on their noses.