A Conversation for Talking Point - The Wonderful World of Pants
-
- 1
- 2
-
Fashion
TeaKay Started conversation Oct 8, 2003
It's almost impossible to be unfashionable with pants as very few people will see them, unless you tend to wander around trouser-less.
The only major fashion mistake you can make is the 'VPL', Visible Panty Line. Mostly experienced by women as they tend to wear tighter trousers, but can be experienced by men when wearing pants, briefs or, heaven forbid, y- fronts and thin (usually cotton) trousers which are a little too small.
TK
Fashion
Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences Posted Oct 10, 2003
There is another sin- the female camel toe.
VPL
Martin Harper Posted Oct 11, 2003
Bah: VPL is sexy. VPL makes you think of knickers, which makes you think of anatomy, which makes you think of sex!
Well, when I say "you", I probably mean "me". I'll get me coat.
VPL
FG Posted Oct 12, 2003
Thongs have a little-discussed nasty side effect. That little strip of fabric is quite adept at transferring bacteria from the rectum to the vagina or urethra, thus causing yeast or bladder infections. 
Here in the States, the New England Journal of Medicine and the American Medical Association keep bringing this up, but no one listens.
VPL
TeaKay Posted Oct 12, 2003
Superficial vanity will always win over underlying health risks until it's too late.
But you can avoid VPL without wearing a thong- not wearing pants at all, for instance, or not wearing horrible tight lycra leggings over size-too-small knickers poorly covering a flabby ar*e.
TK
VPL
sync Posted Oct 13, 2003
I think there are several reason noone listens to people telling you about the yeast or bladder infections you can catch from a thong.
a) Even though they, and all their (girl) friends wear thongs, noone has ever had any problems of the sort mentioned.
b) The people trying to tell you not to wear a thong might be the type of person have a different agenda (people who, for whatever reason, don't think it's morally right to wear a thong).
I'm not saying you cannot get bladder infections from wearing a thong, I'm just saying that maybe it's not as big a problem as some might try to make you believe - and for all it's worth - fashion and health has never really agreed, so I don't think there is any way of changing it (and that's a fact I'm happy about, as I really really really like my girlfriends to wear thongs!!!).
VPL
E G Mel Posted Oct 13, 2003
One could put the solution would be not to keep them on for too long 
Mel 
VPL
SE Posted Oct 13, 2003
http://www.adrants.com/2003_10_05_archive.php#106566319984885619
That is a link to a story about a French ad campaign for thongs. There is no nudity, though some people would definitely call it explicit.
I bring that story up because it focuses on one of the biggest problems, that of tweens being focused in campaigns and subsequently wanting to wear thongs.
Is that the sort of image we want teens to reflect upon?
VPL
FG Posted Oct 13, 2003
I have no secret thong agenda, honestly. But I certainly do wonder if someone out there is keeping tabs on a possible rise in yeast/bladder infections being reported in those countries where thongs are popular.
VPL
E G Mel Posted Oct 14, 2003
Even though I am in France I don't think I should be opening links like that at work!
As for the non exsitant thong agenda, don't harp on about it too much, they might start making anti-bacterial thongs to go with everything else that has been dissinfected in our daily lives so far.
Mel
VPL
sync Posted Oct 15, 2003
I honestly don't see the problem.
"one of the biggest problems, that of tweens being focused in campaigns and subsequently wanting to wear thongs"???
Why is this a problem?
VPL
E G Mel Posted Oct 15, 2003
Because some people don't view Thongs as just a wearable piece of underwear they are something inherently sexy rather than something you wear to stop your trousers showing off your underwear.
Due to this link with sexiness it is only to be expected that there will be some people who feel they are not suited to tweens.
The answer is to remove the link with sexiness for the basic thong, but that will be about as difficult as getting sexual equality on all levels
Mel
VPL
Galen Posted Oct 16, 2003
good call, but revealing anything is sexy, so ow do we do that?
cant think of any thong not being sexy...
VPL
E G Mel Posted Oct 16, 2003
It's funny that, when you consider a catsuit, which covers more than most, is still condsidered sexy 
Mel
VPL
Galen Posted Oct 16, 2003
hmm... well thats revealing, not in how little it covers, but how much ot shows.. by being stretchy and close
Key: Complain about this post
-
- 1
- 2
-
Fashion
- 1: TeaKay (Oct 8, 2003)
- 2: PQ (Oct 9, 2003)
- 3: TeaKay (Oct 9, 2003)
- 4: Galen (Oct 9, 2003)
- 5: Kerr_Avon - hunting stray apostrophes and gutting poorly parsed sentences (Oct 10, 2003)
- 6: Martin Harper (Oct 11, 2003)
- 7: FG (Oct 12, 2003)
- 8: TeaKay (Oct 12, 2003)
- 9: sync (Oct 13, 2003)
- 10: E G Mel (Oct 13, 2003)
- 11: SE (Oct 13, 2003)
- 12: FG (Oct 13, 2003)
- 13: E G Mel (Oct 14, 2003)
- 14: Galen (Oct 14, 2003)
- 15: E G Mel (Oct 15, 2003)
- 16: sync (Oct 15, 2003)
- 17: E G Mel (Oct 15, 2003)
- 18: Galen (Oct 16, 2003)
- 19: E G Mel (Oct 16, 2003)
- 20: Galen (Oct 16, 2003)
More Conversations for Talking Point - The Wonderful World of Pants
Write an Entry
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a wholly remarkable book. It has been compiled and recompiled many times and under many different editorships. It contains contributions from countless numbers of travellers and researchers."