"fur bikini"

[Fred Shapiro]

On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Charles Doyle wrote:

> Insomniac TV was showing Hugh Hefner's 80th (!) birthday. His current
> girlfriend--buxom (of course), blonde (naturally?), and
> mid-twentyish--had organized a party for Hef. She had invited several
> elderly Playmates from the 1970s, who (she explained matter-of-factly)
> had posed in the magazine in the old-fashioned style--in "fur bikinis."
> That is, they did not shave (or otherwise depilate) their pubic area.

This seems like an odd term, in that the essence of a bikini is that it
covers (at least minimally) two areas of a woman's body, whereas the fur
here presumably covers only one area.

Fred


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