To wonder when boobs went out and bums came in?

Wrong country, no? Or maybe the part of Italy you were in? I spent significant time on the beach in Italy in the 90s (southern Tuscany) and women didn’t go topless. I think that’s more south of France.
I assume it has to do with MeToo but also the Kardashian’s. Bums are anonymous, no one is looking at your face while they’re looking at your bum!

I think the fashion relates to a lot of prevalence of gym and fitness culture. It’s hard work in the gym to get the perfect bum.

I’m sure you look lovely though and in proportion with the thighs to match your bum, those like Kim will BBLs look ridiculous due to having skinny legs with huge arses ! Very insect like

Yes it’s strange isn’t it! I once overheard a group of males joke that it’s all about the arse now and that big breasts are “out of fashion” and that “nice/big tits are so 90’s coded”. Thinking about it, it was all about the legs until the 80’s came along then legs got replaced by breasts. Maybe these things come and go in cycles! I remember growing up in the 90s that you wanted to have the smallest, skinniest bum possible.

I noticed this on holiday earlier this year. Not the lack of boobs but the bums everywhere. No one wants to see my bum in one of these bikinis - it would be like a pound of cottage cheese in a string bag.

Ugh, I don't want to be in danger of nearly seeing someone's poo hole thanks. I don't know why you would have to wear a thong to show off your bum. You can see what someone's bum looks like in a normal bikini. Can you imagine the outrage if nearly all men started wearing a thong? 😂

What if a woman is naturally slim with a larger bum though, like Beyoncé, Shakira, Jennifer Lopez etc? How are they ‘fat’?

I agree with this, couldn’t have said it better. I was a teen and then in my 20s through the 2010s, and I saw the change from thin + massive boobs to tiny waist + bum. It did help me a lot with my body image, which was terrible for me as a teen.

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If that’s the case it would be good for me 🤣 Yet sadly for me I don’t think boobs will ever go out.

As someone who was born this way (my bum looks exactly like that naturally) and spent their entire adolescence and young adulthood being so ridiculously self conscious that she would ensure she was always the one walking at the back so nobody could look at her bum, I find it hurtful to read such comments on the internet from other women.

Can we not call other women “hideous”? It’s nasty. Or if you must, post your bum alongside your judgy comment.

Kim Kardashian. For the bum.

Agreed, not everyone is comfortable with that, and that's okay.

I don't think she's a prude. She just wants to be comfortable in her own body.

I read it is an hour glass shape, a primal and child bearing hips thing 🙄 Honestly alot wear thongs on beaches who really shouldn't, all of while men completely covered up with shorts. Bring back normal bikini bottoms!

It was sometime around 2010, these things go very much in cycles somit will.probably flip in another 10 years or so

I blame Sir Mix-A-Lot. We can date the turning point very precisely to May 1992, with the release of "Baby Got Back." Rapping "I like big butts," while standing on top of a giant gold arse, was a bold move at the time, but the sentiment has now gone completely mainstream.

One of the great underestimated cultural giants of our era.

These big fake out of proportion bums make me laugh. They remind me of something you would see in the Hall of Mirrors at a fairground.

It's been a while now. It was boobs and bum for a good while, but now Gen Z fashion trends rarely show off cleavage or wear push up bras etc like was the fashion in the 00s. This generation prefer to minimise their boobs in clothes but emphasise the bum. I'm sure at some point it will come back round.

Judging by the shorts I’ve seen throughout this lovely hot summer it’s not just the bikini bottoms designed to flash enhance your arse cheeks 😂

Err I do?

Sorry @BibbityBoppityTwo but I don't think it's funny that a lot of people are stupid enough to hang on every word of random people on the internet who have cottoned on to the fact they can make a living off manipulating and exploiting them.

The fact that people are actually doing dangerous and ridiculous things, using unsafe products and undertaking unsafe procedures because they are in thrall to these influencers is not a joke.