Topless Fashion
SAN FRANCISCO, June 18. A housewife drew a big crowd to Marina Green Park here yesterday when she appeared in one of the controversial new topless swimming suits.
The history • making sun-bather was Mrs Cath Hardwick, whose appearance on the green attracted dozens of fashionminded gentlemen. Mrs Hardwick, a wellbuilt native of Korea, could not see what the fuss was all about “In Asia,” she said, “when people see the upper body exposed, they don’t think anything about it” Mrs Hardwick took all the staring in her stride, too, for she runs a fashion shop and currently is selling the controversial women’s suits, which have only two slim straps above the waist Somebody asked if she thought nudity would ever invade the world’s beaches.
“I’m against total nudity,” she said. “It would be very bad for business.” She finished her sunbathing without being arrested.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30471, 19 June 1964, Page 11
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