Historical photos of Bare-breasted women

In paintings and sculpture, Minoan women wear bell-shaped dresses that reach to the floor while above their cinched waists, tightly laced, short-sleeved bodices support and display their bare breasts.

Father and daughter, Cunama, Eritera [1930]

Bare-breasted Somali woman, 1885, Antique Print

Mentawei girl with teeth filed to points. Borneo, Kalimantan, Indonesia

Bare-breasted Tinguane Woman,, Island of Luzon, Philippines 

Photographs by Lehnert and Landrock

Dayak girls, 1910 Dayak women, Borneo, East Indies, 1885 old antique print picture

Dayak couple, Borneo, Malaysia [1920] As a result of missionary preachments to hide the naked body, Dayak women stopped going bare- breasted publicly

The native women of Bali (Indonesia) used to go about bare-breasted. The generally high standard of Balinese breasts was attributed to the women's carriage ; from the time they are 7, female Balinese carried well-laden baskets on their heads, thereby attaining a carriage which permited of no flat chests.  

code Bare-breasted Rhodiya girl, Sri Lanka [c.1910] Rhodiya is an outcast group of Sinhalese of Sri Lanka. Formerly they were required to go bare-breasted.

Bare-breasted Baggara Arab girl, Chad [1930] The Baggara are a grouping of Arab ethnic groups inhabiting the portion of Africa's Sahel mainly between Lake Chad and southern Kordofan, numbering over one million. They are known as Baggara in Sudan, and as Shuwa/Diffa Arabs in Chad and Nigeria. Their name derives from the Arabic word (Arabic: بقارة‎) literally meaning "cattle herder". They have a common language, Shuwa Arabic, which is one of the regional varieties of Arabic. Baggara  couple, Sudan Young nomadic Arab girl, Chad. Arab girl of Nigeria