August 1964 : Marion and Valerie Mitchell attend a movie premiere in London, wearing topless dresses. Marion later went by the name 'Janie Jones' when she became a singer. In the mid 1960's there was a brief fashion craze for the 'topless dress',
In 1946 Marilyn Monroe worked as a pin-up girl and charged $10 an hour to be photographed as reference for images that were turned into paintings. These topless images were the ones created with Earl Moran, rather than the later ones photographed by Tom