Modern Life: What is Circumboob? by Richard Godwin

Circumboob is a recent trend in décolletage – the boob trend that brings all other boob trends full circle, so to speak. Imagine a swimsuit cut so as to show the full circumference of the female breast while (crucially) shielding the nipple. You don’t have to imagine it. Just head to the Instagram page of Australian model Gabrielle Epstein, who pioneered the look in February, posing in a green bikini that Isambard Kingdom Brunel would have been proud to have engineered. The image prompted a flurry of reports about how 2023 is the ‘year of the circumboob’, a boob trend for a ‘chaotic era’. None of these reports noted that anyone hoping to follow the trend will likely require serious plastic surgery – for boobs do not generally behave this way in the wild. Necklines have always risen and fallen, but in the 21st century we’ve seen a variety of...

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