Okay, I gotta ask because it’s killing me: what is it with thongs? Or, more accurately, what is it with showing thongs? Over the past few days I’ve been doing Christmas shopping with my better half and, as you might imagine, we’ve ducked into a few coffee shops for a drink and a rest along the way. And almost everywhere you turn, there is at least one girl pitched waaaay forward in a chair, hipster trousers down low and shirt pulling up high, with half her thong-clad arse on display like a blancmange being slowly cut in two by some cheesewire!
I don’t know what’s worse: the sight of someone sitting like that, looking like they have two bald-headed men trying to burst out of the back of their trousers, or the strange double take it makes me do whenever I see it. I’m not a prude, and if it makes them feel good then I suppose that’s fine, but it jars you a little when you’re in Starbucks picking up a coffee and daydreaming. The internal monologue goes something like this: god I need this drink hurry up and serve me this music is horrible what do I still have to buy oh look there’s someone’s bare arse I still need to pick up that book damn that was her coffee not mine hang on was that a bare arse did I remember to order that biscotti I hope it snows this year ye gods the material in that thong looks like it could go at any moment oh good here’s my drink bare arse bare arse BARE ARSE IN THE ROOM!
I suppose I’ll just have to embrace the spirit of the season and turn the other cheek. No pun intended, of course.
December 11th, 2005 at 9:30 pm
Heh, guess this phenomenon isn’t restricted to the U.S. I’d say when I go to the mall, 1 in 100 girls can pull off this “fashion”. Unfortunately, I always see the other 99.
December 13th, 2005 at 8:02 pm
Thong-showing ranks roughly #7 on my list of current highly regrettable “fashion” trends which must be abhorred and avoided. This is why I always stay about 5 years behind the fashion curve, so I have some time to judge each trend as it emerges. I’d say 80% at least are worthless and make the people who subscribe to them look like fools (or just look ugly). But then, I’m nothing if not opinionated!
December 15th, 2005 at 8:04 pm
Yeah I can’t stand the thong showing thing. I just don’t understand. It’s like they are female plumbers or something. The college I go to is crawling with these kind of girls. At the rate the jeans are going, soon girls will just be wearing chaps. It will be like watching MTV or something.