Made you look! If you're tempted to join the Free The NIpple movement but not quite brave enough to bare it all, this TaTa Top bikini provides a happy compromise
Not brave enough to go totally topless?
Now you can bare it all while maintaining modesty in a daring 'TaTa Top' bikini
Though they are not directly affiliated, the TaTa Top was in part inspired by the Free The Nipple movement made popular by Bruce Willis' daughter Scout
By Margot Peppers
If you're tempted to join the Free The Nipple movement but not quite brave enough to bare it all, a new bikini brand provides a happy compromise.
Designed by Chicago-based feminists Robyn Graves and Michelle Lytle, the TaTa Top is a skin colored bikini adorned with nipples, giving the very convincing illusion of toplessness.
The cheeky swimwear, which comes in its original nude hue as well as medium and dark skin tones, costs $28 per top, with $5 of each sale put towards a breast cancer research foundation.
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Cheeky: Designed by Chicago-based feminists Robyn Graves and Michelle Lytle, the TaTa Top is a skin colored bikini adorned with nipples, giving the illusion of toplessness
Good cause: The swimwear, which comes in its original nude hue as well as medium and darker skin tones, costs $28 each, with $5 of each sale put towards a breast cancer research foundation
Get over it: Robyn and Michelle write on their website that they launched the bikini top with the aim of desexualizing the nipple
Exposure: 'If people look around and see this everywhere, then who cares if you can legitimately be topless? Because you're already seeing it,' said Michelle
'I think that the important thing about this product is that, if people look around and see this everywhere, then who cares if you can legitimately be topless? Because you're already seeing it,' she said. Though they are not directly affiliated, the TaTa Top was in part inspired by the Free The Nipple movement launched by filmmaker Lina Esco and made popular by Bruce Willis' daughter Scout. In May, Scout paraded through New York City - where female toplessness is legal - in just a skirt, posting pictures of herself to Twitter with the hashtag #FreeTheNipple
Campaign: Though they are not directly affiliated, the TaTa Top was in part inspired by the Free The Nipple movement launched by filmmaker Lina Esco and made popular by Bruce Willis' daughter Scout
Debunk ideas: 'The only excitement that comes from seeing breasts is that you are conditioned to think they are something special, something to be kept hidden,' reads TaTa Top website
She later explained the logic behind her topless posts in an article on XOJane, writing: 'Women are regularly kicked off Instagram for posting photos with any portion of the areola exposed, while photos sans nipple - degrading as they might be - remain unchallenged.
'So I walked around New York topless and documented it on Twitter, pointing out that what is legal by New York state law is not allowed on Instagram.'
She added: 'What I am arguing for is a woman's right to choose how she represents her body - and to make that choice based on personal desire and not a fear of how people will react to her or how society will judge her. No woman should be made to feel ashamed of her body.'
