Bad G-string etiquette

It’s not comfortable or sexy but there are times when sticking some thread up your bum is just good manners! Shouldn’t we just embrace the visible panty line and be done with it? The 70s seem to be bang on trend and that’s what ladies used to sport then. Cecilia Rivers, by email Cecilia, your devotion to the cause is impressive, if misguidedly fanatical. You see, when fashion people say that a decade is – as you say, and get you with the lingo –”bang on trend”, they do not mean this literally, but more half-heartedly. Your mistake in assuming that the rehash of the 70s should usher in a return of the visible panty line (VPL) is similar to that of religious zealots who mistake what was once merely hygienic guidance in the pre-refrigeration era for solemn words of God. In other words, you’re being too kosher. When designers resurrect a decade, they don’t gobble it up, they cherry pick: they choose the elements that worked, and learn from their elders’ mistakes about what didn’t. This means in the specific case of the return of the 70s, long skirts, yes; men with perms, no; gold detailing and blouses, yes; espadrilles and VPL, no. No, no, no. Look, I am no G-string fascist (and considering the image my mind conjures up of a “G-string fascist” is that of Michelle “Bombshell” McGee – Jesse James’s former mistress, whose hobbies included sporting Nazi paraphernalia and posing for allegedly erotic photos, often at the same time – I’m now 200% sure I’m not one.) I

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