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September, 1969

Peace Corps Bares Its BreastYap, U. S. Trust territories—On the islands comprising Yap, a district of Micronesia in the western Pacific, it is common for Micronesian women to go about bare-breasted. When American Peace Corps girls arrived in the area, they were urged by the natives to adopt the same costume. The Yapese women were surprised to learn that for Americans bare breasts are taboo. Determined to educate their backward visitors, they hid the girls' upper garments and bras. For a few days...