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regarding the exotic lingerie section, the thong gallery or the camisole
gallery. Thank you.Underwear
Taken from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Undergarments, also called "underwear", "lingerie"
(undergarments for women), or sometimes "intimate clothing", are clothes
worn next to the skin,
usually under other clothes.
Some clothing is specifically underwear, while T-shirts
and some shorts are suitable as underwear as well as outer clothing. Suitability
as outer clothing is, apart from outdoor or indoor climate, largely a social and
sometimes even a legal matter. One of the criteria for shorts not to be suitable
as outer clothing may be that it has a fly that avoids exposure of the genitals
just by an overlap of cloth, without buttons, etc.
Wearing and changing underwear permits outer garments to be worn repeatedly
without needing to be cleaned.
In addition to keeping outer garments from soiling, undergarments are worn
for a variety of reasons: warmth, comfort and hygiene
being the most common. Undergarments are often used for modesty
or erotic
display; sometimes both of these motivations are simultaneously present.
Lingerie
Lingerie is a term, derived from the French
language, for women's undergarments. These garments are heavily eroticised
in Western culture.
A thong, G-string, or tanga is a narrow piece of cloth
or leather
that passes between the legs
and is attached to a band around the hips,
worn as a bikini
bottom or as underwear.
Although it was worn for decades by exotic
dancers, the thong first gained mainstream popularity in South
America, particularly in Brazil
in the 1970s. In
Brazil it was originally a style of swimsuit
whose rear area was so thin—often just a string—that it would disappear
between the wearer's buttocks.
Its earliest form was a strip of cloth between the legs secured by a string
around the waist and called a "G-string," a name that was in use at
least as far back as the late 1800s.
Today, a G-string is generally thought of as having a 'T' back whereas a thong
has a 'V' back. It is when wearing a G-string that the material goes between the
buttocks—a thong has slightly more cloth.
The origin of the word "G-string" is uncertain. Some speculate that
it may have been an analogy to the thickest string on a violin
or a euphemistic abbreviation of girdle string or groin string;
but the earliest references spell it "geestring," suggesting that it
may have been a Native
American word that simply sounded like G-string. G-strings can be
seen being worn in some old photographs.
The origin of the word thong is from Old
Englishthwong, a flexible leather cord.
Many tribal peoples, such as some of the Khoisan
people of southern Africa,
wore a similar style of clothing for many centuries. Their word for it, tanga,
is used in languages such as Spanish to refer to the garment, sometimes
specifically the type with cloth through the legs and string around the sides.
(In English, tangas are briefs that have full rear coverage but only a
waistband at the sides.)
By the late 1980s,
the design had made its way into most of the Western
world, and thong underwear
became more and more popular through the 1990s.
As of 2003, thong
underwear is one of the fastest-selling styles
among women and is also gaining some popularity
among men. One advantage attributed to the wearing of thong underwear is that no
visible panty
line can be seen even under a thin, light-colored, or skin-tight garment.
The main drawback to thong underwear is that the fabric must be pulled directly
between one's buttocks,
which many people find unattractive and/or uncomfortable, but which others
enjoy. Wearing the same thong for a prolonged period of time is considered
unsanitary, just like any other underwear.
Today, there are a number of intermediate styles between full rear coverage
and a string rear. A style that has a narrow band of fabric in the rear that
just covers the cleft in the buttocks is often called a "Brazilian"
rear, because it is often seen at Brazilian Sambacarnivals.
In recent years the hip
hop and R&B
music industry has also helped to promote the thong by composing songs about it
and featuring artists clad in them. Artists include Britney
Spears, Christina
Aguilera and Lil'
Kim among others. One example of music that popularized this undergarment is
the "Thong
Song" by Sisqó,
which was released in 2000.
Thongs have become icons of pop
culture.
As is the case with many icons of pop culture, G-string/thong underwear is
not without its own controversies. In 2002
American clothing retailer Abercrombie
& Fitch, known for their racy catalogues, launched a line of thong
underwear marketed specifically at girls aged 13 to 16 years old. Several
consumer advocacy groups objected to marketing of the thong, claiming they are
too sexually suggestive. In April,
2002 thong
underwear was at the centre of a media uproar after a vice-principal at Rancho
Bernardo High School in southern California
forced female students to lift their skirts before entering a school dance, in a
so-called crackdown on thong/G-string underwear.
Many beachside municipalities in the United States have legislation
forbidding G-string/thong swimsuits in public, while others governments such as
that of Virginia
passed laws forbidding the exposure of underwear, believed to have been prompted
by the deliberate and inadvertent exposure by young women of their
G-string/thongs. Virginia's so-called "droopy-pants" bill was dropped
two days after having been passed by the state house.
On Europe's beaches, wearing swimwear in g-string/thong-style is fairly
common, especially on the Spanish Mediterranean
islands like Ibiza
and Mallorca.
Also on Baltic
Sea beaches and in public pools in France
and Germany,
women and men wear G-strings and thongs or thong-style one-piece-suits. While
this type of swimsuit is quite common for European women, more and more men like
to wear them not only as underwear but as swimwear in public. Although it is
likely that this is a consequence of the more liberal society in many European
states that results in a preference for sexier clothing, there has been a
moderate increase in demand for male G-strings in the U.S. male population.
