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Kate Upton's breasts could have been barely restrained by a solid white, black, or red bikini for her new GQ cover — but no, the magazine dressed her in a flag-inspired triangle top. Because something about a flag pattern just seems to just do it for her male audience.

Source: s3-ec.buzzfed.com

Kate Upton posed for the July issue of GQ licking a popsicle, clad in a flag-print bikini. You probably looked, breathed in and out as usual, saw the sky was still blue, and went back to everything being normal. The sight of a busty blond in a flag bikini with something in her mouth on the cover of a men's magazine is about as shocking as Lady Gaga accessorizing her studded leather harness with fringed wings.

The sex appeal in that Kate Upton cover comes not just from her bursting bust, phallic snack, or skimpy swimwear — it also comes from that flag imagery. The flag bikini is a quintessential men's magazine look — women's magazines definitely play with flag stuff, especially when they want to get extra-American around the Fourth and all that, but they don't make any of their cover girls wear it in triangle top form since it's generally perceived as tacky and anti-style. For example, when Britney Spears appeared on her first and only Vogue cover in November of 2001, red-and-white flag stripes served as a background to her clothed torso, rather than a means of barely concealing it.

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