Women, in general, have much more developed social/emotional awareness than us dudes.
I'll give you an example. Earlier this year my wife and I were on vacation; and we visited an "unofficial" nude beach. When we got there, there were more people in bathing suits than nudes. I got naked anyway. Personally, as long as nudity is accepted or expected, I'm going to get naked and don't really care whether "the textiles" are ok with it. "They should have known what to expect" is my personal philosophy.
My wife, on the other hand, does care. She does not want to shock "the textiles" or be considered immodest. So she did not get naked.
The first time my wife went to a nudist resort, she was determined to avoid being openly naked. As we crossed the pool area, me naked and her tightly wrapped in her towel, we came across a smoking couple and bummed a cig off of them (we've quit smoking since). The woman, completely naked, started talking to us (more so my wife). And without missing a beat my wife tossed her towel to the side, facing the woman completely naked to interact with her.
It wasn't that she was ready to be naked in front of everyone, it was that she felt it was more socially/emotionally appropriate to not "hide" from a friendly person who wasn't hiding anything from her.
So it makes sense that the same woman who will avoid wearing a revealing dress in an environment where she feels it's socially "inappropriate" will also have no problem striking conversations completely naked with strangers at a nude/nudist venue. As baffling as it may seem to us dudes.
That's my theory anyway and I'm sticking to it.
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