User:Gpscholar/Breast Disguises

Local, state, and federal laws determine whether women may appear topless in public. Consequently, there is wide variation from one place to another as to whether women may dispense with their shirts, blouses, bikini tops, and bras.

In some localities, doing so could result in a woman's being arrested and charged with indecency; in others, she would be able to appear topless in public without penalty.

Since women can seldom be sure where they may appear topless with impunity, many are using breast disguises to make their boobs appear to be something other than boobs.

Typical Disguises

Some breast disguises are designed to make boobs look like animals; others make them resemble cartoon characters. A few breast disguises make boobs look like clothing, such as scarves or novelty bras.

Others have a holiday theme, making boobs look like Halloween pumpkins or some other objects that are associated with a specific holiday or festive season. Other breast disguises seek to pass off boobs as telephones.

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  This breast disguise makes the wearers' boobs look like Minnie Mouse.

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  This breast disguise makes the wearers' boobs look like scarves.

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  This breast disguise makes the wearers' boobs fun to pet.

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  These "shirts" are really nothing more than a coat or two of paint!

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  This breast disguise makes the wearers' boobs look like adorable little puppies. How cute!

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  This breast disguise makes the wearer look like she is wearing a "hands-on" bra.

Since it is not illegal in many states and localities for women to bare their breasts to feed their infants in public, some breast disguises are equipped with detachable fake babies.

Another approach often used by women is to paint their torsos so that they appear to be wearing shirts, whereas, in fact, they are topless. These women seem to be wearing tight-fitting shirts. Actually, they are wearing nothing more than a coat or two of latex paint that has been cleverly and artistically applied to resemble fabric.

Free Alternatives

Women who cannot afford breast disguises, which cost as much as $50, or body paint, which can cost almost as much, sometimes cover their boobs with their own hands, pretending that they are wearing a hands-on novelty bra, as actress Sarah Michelle Gellar did in several of her films.

Others hold melons next to their boobs, pretending that their boobs are just another pair of the melons.

Political Activism

Several organizations, including feminist groups, are working to overturn laws that impose civil and criminal penalties on women for exposing their breasts in public. If men are allowed to go shirtless in public, women ought to be allowed to do so as well, for there is no difference, they say, between a man's chest and a woman's breasts, and, in their words, "the double standard is not only wrong, but it is also based on an outmoded sexist point of view that must sexualize women's mammary glands." Men around the world welcome this.