Dear Marcella,
it is very sad that you try to destroy my nicest illusions ...
... because you think about male ulterior motives to be the only reason for Minoan women to wear breast-revealing dresses.
But it is a historical truth that some special parts of human bodies have been shown more or less in different times of human history:
en.wikipedia.org
And there are stories and reports even from ancient cultures of some "incidents" which are surprising because you would not expect them to happen in such a culture because you have heard different stories from especially these times.
I know a story of a rather rich and beautiful girl from Athen's high society around the times of Perikles - around 450 B.C. - when Athens was regarded to be the leading Greek city in politics, architecture, art and fashion - contrary and occasional enemy to Sparta, which was a militarized society no one of us today would ever have liked to live in.
Women usually did not participate in any way in politics - not in Athens, never in Sparta - but as we know from "Xanthippe", they always found a way to influence men if they wanted to.
This special "high society girl" in my story aroused some interest in her time when she once saw a young man working at Athen's harbour which also had sandy beaches.
We can assume by the following story that he was a free and very good-looking but rather poor young man because he was working at the harbour whereas she did not really need to work.
In any case, one evening, when he had finished his tasks, she came up to him, asked him a bit about his work and his life and then, she surprised him by asking what he thought about her sandals which she made on her own - or which were made according to her special wishes - especially for walking across sandy beaches like this one.
He was surprised but he looked on them, said to her, they are very beautiful and very unusual.
She thanked him for his politeness, said she would be glad to meet him once again, said good-bye, turned around and walked away.
Everyone who watched her footsteps now, could see that flat nails in her sandals' soles left an inscription in the sand when she walked away:
Left shoe: FOLLOW ME ... right shoe: IF YOU WANT !
Unfortunately, the rest of this story does not tell us at all, why this girl wanted to be followed by a good-looking young man or if this special beautiful looking young man followed her immediately. We can also only speculate if the obsession of women for shoes or for something what they wear on their feet is a kind of genetical determination of women.
But the following year, such sandals were said to be very much in fashion in Athens until the city council did not allow them any more to be sold for young girls.
Again, we certainly do not really know why this decision was made, but we can assume that the high society girl who invented such sandals would have had a lot of followers on Twitter.