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Did women really act on the stage in ancient times? A look at the lives and liberation of Colosseum actresses in honour of International Women’s Day. The ancient philosopher Cicero once said: “Our ancestors, in their wisdom, considered that all women, because of their innate weakness, should be under the control of guardians.” In ancient Rome, actresses had limited freedom, as did all women. Classical theatre acting and wine, which were patroned by the god of ecstasy, Bacchus, were forbidden to them during the Republic. Women couldn’t act in classical plays, while wives would be kissed by their husbands to check for evidence of drinking, which could be punished by divorce or death. Suspicion was also increased by Bacchanalia festivals – rumoured to have involved drunkenness, orgies and even murder –  which women had attended in secret. Masked male actors, who were usually slaves or labourers, played female roles like the mother, maid and romantic interest.  The word ...

W hen we think of the monokini today, we picture those fiddly one-piece swimsuits that give you awkward tan lines, popularised by the Kardashian and Hilton sisters. But the first monokini was in fact originally a topless swimsuit that exposed the female breasts, conceived in 1964 by avant-garde designer Rudi Gernreich, who predicted (rather accurately) that “bosom will be uncovered within five years.” While the design initially had a harder time catching on in the United States (the first American model to pose in the swimsuit, Peggy Moffitt, received death threats), the monokini appears to have found itself more at home unsurprisingly in Paris, at the legendary Piscine Molitor, where the first bikini was revealed to the world nearly twenty years earlier in 1946… In this press shoot I found in the  LIFE archives , photographer Paul Schutzer captures model Daphne Dayle showing off the topless design for a pack of hungry male journalists. The suit’s creator, Rudi Gernreich, was ...

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