The Sun kicks off "40 fabulous years of Page 3 girls" today with a picture of the first woman to go topless for the paper, Stephanie Rahn.
Now 62, Rahn says modestly: "If I had tried to be a Page 3 girl today, I think I would have been rejected. They are so beautiful now."
But beauty, it appears, is only part of the "package" that makes a perfect Page 3 girl. The greatest photographer of the models, Beverley Goodway (now retired), explains:
"She has to have the figure, but she also needs to glow. She needs a radiance which partly comes from lighting and partly from her feeling right in that situation.
I've always said the sexy thing about Page 3 isn't that she's got her top off, it's the look in her eyes."
Ah, so it's all in the eyes.
