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lol That picture of the American "monokini" is a man with breast implants. Look at how he lacks the female waist, female toroso utterly... And, look how skinny and long the legs are, like an Asian man. It's a man with breast implants (you can definitely tell it' implants, too), and that's why they are hiding their face in their hair. No offence intended to the transgendered... But, a picture of a woman in women's clothing would be more appropriate than potentially disturbing people sensitive to such sights. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.223.117.225 (talk) 21:59, 31 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Restarted

The article has been mreged with Bikini earlier, but with new information flooding in it was thought wise that Monkini shall have its own article again. Cheers. Aditya^{(talk • contribs)} 12:28, 29 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Here are some of the sources

The one problem is that the fashion world now has two different types of bathing suits considered a "monokini." See: [1] for the other type (basically a one piece that has been cut to display your abs but still covers your chest. 70.24.147.133 (talk) 22:42, 21 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Soviets and the monokini

The Soviet government called it "barbarism" and a sign of social "decay"

yes, it's found in the reference cited, but it seems rather unlikely to me, because the Soviets (and the other Eastern block countries) were rather tolerant with nudity on beaches. bogdan (talk) 20:54, 19 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't invent the piece of information on soviet condemnation. But, the piece of information you are offering - Soviet tolerance of nudity - seems highly unlikely. Can you cite any reference that validates this information? Aditya^{(talk • contribs)} 14:20, 22 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Image

The image Topless_women_on_the_beach.jpg seems really out of place here, none of the women in the picture are wearing a monokini. Remove? 85.252.185.219 (talk) 23:55, 30 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oh well, since no one did it, I'll do it myself. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.252.185.219 (talk) 04:59, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Someone and without dropping a word here seems to have added Topless_women_on_the_beach.jpg to the article again. I'm gonna go ahead and delete it _again_ for the aforementioned reasons. Seriously, if you actually support the presence of Topless_women_on_the_beach.jpg in the Monokini entry, state your reasons here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Desnacked (talk • contribs) 02:41, 17 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A monokini is just a bikini without a top which is what that is. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.45.87.159 (talk) 01:18, 4 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia about the subject. Not a gallery of pictures especially large iones stuck into the lead which make it hard to read the lead. Wikimedia Commons has galleries if that's what you are interested in maintaining. Dmcq (talk) 13:04, 4 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A regular monokini, i.e. a bottom without top, warrants an illustration as the subject of the article. Is there any reason or policy that says it should not be here? Please, replace it with better image, if needed, but don't remove it without a valid reason. Aditya^{(talk • contribs)} 13:29, 4 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

True, it just seemed to cause a narrow line of text for the next section where both photos occurred across the page on my browser. I should have just shrunk it a bit. I'll leave as it is for the moment and see if other editors want to do anything. Dmcq (talk) 15:29, 4 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Is the bottom image really considered a monokini? I thought they were just the bottom portion of swimsuits. 74.89.58.36 (talk) 23:39, 30 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

american meaning for monokini

So i Googled monokini^[1] and it came up with a lot of those one piece looking things with cut outs. Thats what most americans think of as a monokini^[2], a bikini that is attached at the front center and open on the back. The monokini is more conservative than a one piece, but without the stigma of being for older or fat people. It also wont come off as easily as a bikini would in waves.^[3] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.127.147.218 (talk) 03:25, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Back-formation

Since the "bi" in "bikini" has nothing to do with "two", despite the fact that a bikini is a two-piece bathing suit, I think the article ought to include a discussion of how "monokini" is a back-formation from "bikini". See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikini_Atoll for the etymology of "bikini".

John Link (talk) 05:20, 1 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

"First Topless Dancer" ??

"Carol Doda [...] became the first topless dancer in the United States." Yes, there's a cited source for this, but that doesn't make it any less ridiculous on its face. Ever hear of a thing called "burlesque", for example?

--75.145.68.89 (talk) 16:17, 15 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

[1] ttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sugexp=kjrmc&cp=8&gs_id=2&xhr=t&q=monokini&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&biw=1280&bih=675&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi

[2] ttp://www.shoppingandinfo.com/2009/04/celebrities-wear-monokinis-spring-trend.html

[3] ttp://www.okmagazine.com/2011/05/lindsay-lohan-suffers-another-nip-slip-bikini-top-surrenders-to-big-ocean-wave/

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