There are not 'topless beaches' so much as beaches everywhere where bathers remove swimsuits to get an even tan".
The grooved skin of a shark helps it swim faster and has been copied by makers of swimsuits and racing yachts.
His call to picket the event so intimidated contestants that they paraded not in swimsuits but in ankle-length kaftans, whose hoods served as veils.Sceptics argue that Mr Ben Kirane's success could not have come without a helping hand from the authorities, anxious to draw support away from more militant Islamist groups.
This swirling slows down the flow, and thus helps the fluid to cling to the surface.Mizuno's principal innovation is a set of vortex generators that protrude just below the bustline of its new swimsuits.
ADIDAS may be upset that the star Australian Olympic swimmer whom it sponsors, Ian "the Thorpedo" Thorpe, has cast doubt on the firm's claims that its new swimsuits "help you swim faster".
Mr Thorpe reckons that most of the recent advances in swimsuits have been "visual".
A country with a growth rate as skimpy as its swimsuits, prey to any financial crisis that was around, a place of chronic political instability, whose infinite capacity to squander its obvious potential was as legendary as its talent for football and carnivals, did not seem to belong with those emerging titans.Now that scepticism looks misplaced.
By the mid-1930s, "bathing costumes" designed to conceal curves and bulges were giving way to "swimsuits" designed for practicality or even, excitingly, to showcase the body.But as sexual taboos were breaking down, another set was growing, conflating prudishness, paranoia and straight racism.
It is big on celebrity news, particularly reports involving attractive women in swimsuits.
Mark Brewer, Michigan's Democratic chairman, says the DNC will let his delegates attend the convention, but that remains to be seen.The result of all this, complained a writer for the Detroit Free Press, was a primary comparable to "NASCAR on bicycles, Halloween with no costumes and Miss America without swimsuits" (the last event might not be as dull as he meant).
His answer to the brand identity crisis, one suspects: even skimpier swimsuits.
