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<p>[QUOTE="Troodon, post: 1594881, member: 4626"]Would suggest AU at least (which I think this likely is). 1917's a lot cheaper than 1916 obviously.</p><p><br /></p><p>Common explanation for why the design was changed was that some found the nudity offensive lol... yet no contemporary sources corroborate that theory, and you'd think that if someone found it that offensive someone would have said something that made it into print. There has never been any official explanation for the change, just various theories of varying levels of plausibility, and nobody still alive knows why so the answer to the mystery is lost to history. (Another theory is that she was given a breastplate to symbolize America's war stance in WWI.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I love this design too, with or without the nudity. Unfortunately, it doesn't wear well and anything less than XF doesn't look very good; it loses the details that make the design distinctive.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Troodon, post: 1594881, member: 4626"]Would suggest AU at least (which I think this likely is). 1917's a lot cheaper than 1916 obviously. Common explanation for why the design was changed was that some found the nudity offensive lol... yet no contemporary sources corroborate that theory, and you'd think that if someone found it that offensive someone would have said something that made it into print. There has never been any official explanation for the change, just various theories of varying levels of plausibility, and nobody still alive knows why so the answer to the mystery is lost to history. (Another theory is that she was given a breastplate to symbolize America's war stance in WWI.) I love this design too, with or without the nudity. Unfortunately, it doesn't wear well and anything less than XF doesn't look very good; it loses the details that make the design distinctive.[/QUOTE]
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