Paris had more than four hundred parks and gardens. Unlike London, where the skies were always overcast, Paris often had brilliantly clear days. So its parks were full of Muggle girls in bikinis lying around in the sun.
Long legs, peachy bottoms, slender waists, and breasts of every shape—during the day, Parisian parks grew all sorts of strange things.
Compared to the French, the British were far more conservative. After their meal, Pomona had deliberately brought Severus to stroll through Tuileries Garden, wanting to see how he would react.
Would he be like an ordinary man, his eyes lighting up as he looked at these "beautiful flowers" growing on the grass and stretching out their young, graceful bodies? Or would he act like a moral crusader and condemn what they wore?
Paris was the capital of fashion. The very first bikini had been displayed at a hotel swimming pool beside the Eiffel Tower.
Men liked looking at women in bikinis. After all, Louis, the designer of the garment, had been a man himself. But getting such a bold and avant-garde outfit widespread attention had not been easy.
As it happened, America dropped an atomic bomb on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. Inspired by the newspaper headlines, Louis had a flash of insight and named the new swimsuit the bikini.
The usual order of rising consumer spending was women, children, pets, then men. Men should have had the weakest urge to spend, but Americans discovered the bikini effect. Men liked feasting their eyes on beautiful women in bikinis; women liked wearing bikinis to show off their figures and find confidence in men's admiring gazes.
If a woman discovered that her boyfriend was watching a beautiful woman on the street, and that woman was smiling at him, then even if she