So the Sun has changed its mind about giving up the notorious bare bosoms of page 3. Maybe they thought they didn't really degrade women, as has often been claimed.
His English portraits of women often show a preference for informal dress: loose shifts, flowing drapery, open necks, bare bosoms and uncovered lower arms (so much quicker to paint than intricate lace collars and cuffs, and also more titillating - the bare arm, it has been said, was to the 1630s what the ankle was to the Victorians).
You can bare your bosom to the storm of British artillery, to throw off a three-penny tax on tea; and yet wring the last hard earned farthing from the grasp of the black laborers of your country.
When Cassius declares, "I... have bared my bosom to the thunder-stone," what the audience sees is that noble Roman's open blouse with a black bra underneath.
This summer, by contrast, the confrontations were led by La Tigresa, a striptease artiste who expressed her passion for the forest by baring her bosom to loggers and then, once she had their attention, reciting her poems.
At one point, craving company of any description, she bares her bosom to a fourteen-year-old boy, who assumes the taut, stunned expression of someone who has been given the biggest toy in the store but no instruction manual.
Ford also fiercely guarded her models' clean image, keeping them out of ads for bras and antiperspirant, for example, and allowing only a modest baring of bosom.
And better yet, media outlets could have cried "rubbish!" when news of the newly bared royal bosom threatened to become the news of the world.
In the Renaissance, a woman might have bared her bosom at court and received a certain admiration, but to show her calf or ankle might have sparked a scandal.
