Cropping out the top.

Local businesses in Virginia Beach are set to remove “vulgar” clothing from their boardwalk displays in an ambitious drive to make the tourist hotspot more welcoming for families.

The Virginia Beach City Council signed off on a resolution on Tuesday to clean up the commercial areas close to the beach by eliminating the suggestive, pun-laden shirts and hot pants from sight. 5

The council claims the city’s major thoroughfare, which houses most of the resorts and restaurants, has become inundated with the humorous garments, contradicting the beachtown’s mission of being a “family-friendly” vacation destination.

“Along Atlantic Avenue, there has been a proliferation of indecent and/or vulgar t-shirts and displays in storefronts displays. The proliferation of such

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