Hmm.
"Hygiene issue?" Do they think the breasts will leak or something?
In the beaches of France, Italy, Croatia and Greece that I've visited, women going topless was no big deal. Some did, some didn't.
But I remember some years ago, our older son telling us that when he tried to go swimming at a French public pool, they turned him away because he was wearing boxer-like swimming trunks.
Those were considered unsanitary.
They told him he had to wear Speedo type swimwear, so off he went to purchase it. We got a good laugh out of that.
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