Why thongs were invented

Women, on the other hand, would often rely on maids to dress them in the Victorian era, making it easier for the servant if buttons were on the left side of the garment. At the end of the 15th century, Charles VIII of France tried to find comfortable shoes to fit his deformed feet he had six toes on one foot. Since he couldn't find anything that worked, he had shoes designed with a square toe , which quickly gained popularity.

Cuff links came to into existence in the 19th century because men wore shirts with starched collars and cuffs. Since the shirts were so stiff, manufacturers thought that a sleeve fastener would be easier to push through the material than a button.

The solution provided was a metal chain or link to fasten the cuffs, and the cuff-link was born. Buttons were not added to sleeves for functionality! Rather, the French military commander Napoleon Bonaparte requested that buttons be attached to jacket sleeves to prevent his troops from wiping their noses on their jackets.

Want more? Email us at stylesubmissions huffingtonpost. PR pitches sent to this address will be ignored. News U. In , an estimated ten million thongs worth about sixty-five million pounds were sold in the United Kingdom. The British shop Tammy Girl came under particular fire for marketing thongs to pre-teenaged girls with logos such as "Cupid Rules" and "Talent" printed on them. A further attack on the thong came in , when the authorities at Daytona Beach, Florida, using anti-nudity laws to dissuade the use of the thong, threatened to arrest anyone displaying more than a third of their buttocks in public.

Craik, Jennifer. London: Routledge, Fashion History Clothing Types and Styles G-String and Thong The G-string, or thong, a panty front with a half- to one-inch strip of fabric at the back that sits between the buttocks, became one of the most popular forms of female underwear in the early twenty-first century.

Influences The stripper's G-string is another influence and has been an important part of the striptease artist's-or, more latterly, lap dancer's-wardrobe since the s, when the taboo of displaying the vagina or any degree of pubic hair was paramount. Emergence in the s The thong was incorporated into the vocabulary of women's underwear in the s in response to tighter and tighter trousers, especially jeans worn by women to display more of their gym-honed bodies in an era that emphasized muscled body shape.

Fads of the s In the s, the thong became a garment of folkloric proportions after the White House intern Monica Lewinsky's affair with U. Growing Popularity The popularity of the thong spread across all ages and sexes although the man in the thong is mainly popular in certain gay circles , and by , a moral panic had ensued as parents and the media saw the thong as responsible for sexualizing girls at too young an age.

See also Lingerie; Underwear. Bibliography Cox, Caroline. Lingerie: A Lexicon of Style. London: Scriptum Editions, Men's G-String Bathing Suits. So, the ladies got together and created their grand solution: a tiny strip of cloth to cover up just the crucial bits and so they were able to keep flaunting what their mama gave them, without technically disobeying the new laws.

Keep in mind, this was at a time when normal underwear for women were puffy, cotton, knee-length bloomers. The G String was exclusive to strippers until designer Rudi Gernreich famously invented the thong swimsuit in the 70s , a time when women were being encouraged to explore their sexual side and break through the taboo.

The s were all about tight tight tight —lycra and spandex that showed off those gym bodies. Basically, women needed underwear that could stay invisible under their hot pink gym leggings. Frederick Mellinger, founder of the famous undies brand Frederick's of Hollywood , introduced the G String to the masses, marketing it as the Scanty Panty. It first came out as more of a sex toy, alongside the crotchless and edible undies, so not exactly mainstream. Unless you generally wear crotchless or edible underwear under your everyday jeans-- in which case, you do you, girl.

Remember how US President Clinton got impeached for lying about an affair with his intern? Well according to reports at the time, it all allegedly started when she flashed the straps of her G String, which were showing above her trousers, hidden under her jacket.

As any good millennial will tell you, those G String straps were pretty much the reason low rise jeans came back into fashion. Remember the whale tail? They were even spotted on the red carpet. Just me? Either way, by , the G String was the fastest growing segment of women's underwear, and "full-bottomed" underwear were almost obsolete.

Now that you know more about G Strings than you ever thought you would, feel free to head on over to our Insta and tell us if you ever sported the G String above the jeans look.

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