Thea, that’s the running joke between my husband and me.
“All the mirrors in that person’s house must only reflect her from the neck up!”
As a thong wearer (UNDER my clothes thank you very much) I agree that seeing someone flying out everywhere is gross. Of course I find numerous things sickening and try to avoid the sight if at all possible. Sadly the beach is harder to avoid seeing certain things… shudder
Well, personally I don’t care what people wear, however I do hope that those wearing the thong bikini for the first time have a large supply of heavy duty sun block handy. 
Yak. Can’t stand thongs – why the hell would I want to give myself a perma-wedgie? Didn’t wear 'em when I was thin, don’t wear 'em now. If I wear bikini bottom underwear, it’s a special day. Give me my thick cotton granny panties anyday. 
That’s more than anyone here really needed to know, on reflection.
And the thong-over-low-riders? I realize it’s possible to get less classy, but only with special effort. I think it would involve acid-washed jeans and red high heels, though.
I’ve seen it on someone before and I can say objectively that sure, it’s probably sexy. Certainly it would make someone think of sex when they’re looking at it. If that’s the look they’re going for, fine…I’m going to go for classy and covered, myself.
Oh, and even “fat police” :rolleyes: know the difference between “Oh my GOD, look at that COW, she should lay off the TWINKIES” and “Eeugh. Really not the butt-cheeks I wanted to see today.”
Heh, I don’t think I even own granny panties.
Is a big thong considered a “granny panty?”
I have a few large size thongs I wear on days I’m feeling podgy - do they count?
Tube tops! Now, EVERYONE looks good in those, right? Or, not so much?
Nah. Ladies, if you want to show me that you’re wearing a thong, I want to see the part that makes it a thong, you know what I mean? Don’t tease. Moon me!
As far as thongs in general (on Federally licensed thong-worthy butts. Anna-Nicole Smith, your application has been turned down emphatically), I’m reminded of a quote by John Travolta in Face Off: “I hate to see you leave, but I love to watch you walk away.”
Yech, seal_clubber. Most people can get away with a tank top, but tube top? I’d get arrested for indecent exposure.
ralph124c:
Nuh uh. The thing about thongs is that you shouldn’t be able to actually see all of it; there should be just enough flesh to hide the butt part, right? If the ass is too undernourished, the eye will see too much of the thong. And that’s just as bad, IMO, as seeing too much of the ass.
Dude…you should try some of that moist toilet tissue they have these days. It really does work :).
Sometimes it’s a cultural thing. There’s a large black population in my city, and even the heavy girls tend to dress very sexily. It appears that body image regarding sexy clothing in the local black community, at least, is less concerned with being petite before wearing certain styles, and more focused on how wearing them makes you feel – i.e. if you feel sexy, you look it. And I can attest to the fact that some of these women, who are noticeably heavier than me (and I’m not my svelte young self any more) look GREAT in some of these styles that would make me look like a laughingstock.
(Hoping I don’t sound racist), in regards to what butrscotch. I have black friends and I have white friends, and I have noticed that the black friends I have that are overweight seem to know how to dress better than the white friends I have that are overweight. Or maybe they just have more confidence? I don’t know, just something I observed.
Agree. I work in NYC where there are lots of Puerto Rican and Dominican girls who aren’t afraid to wear tight clothes, short dresses etc., even if they’re carrying a few extra pounds. And it’s nice.
Ditto. I have no objection to someone wearing a thong just to sunbathe on the beach, if they want to get a tan.
But walking around in one is just unpleasant, in either gender.
Like you, the string-thing makes me feel majorly icky, flossing someone’s sweaty anus (or whatever it does).
I have noticed that darker skinned people’s flesh tends to look much better overweight than paler people’s flesh.
Eg I once saw this quite stout/fat black British women working in a clothes shop. Her outfit was fluorescent pink leggings and a cropped bra-style top. Despite the fact she had quite a big belly and chunky thighs, she looked fine. Her skin looked smooth and strong and even.
I cannot imagine a white person pulling that outfit off unless they were very very slim. White blubber just looks worse than black (maybe because it shows red stretch marks or skin creases or imperfections more???)
This discussion is making me think of a multi-page thread from a year or so ago, and the Pit spinoff (also multi-page), in which people expressed doubts as to the poster’s veracity. (Do a search for “pyjama + pants + girl”.)
Anyway, one of the red flags was that this poster claimed to be from a “Northern European country”, but was mortally embarrassed when his GF wanted him to wear a Speedo. It was pointed out that only an American male would balk at wearing a Speedo; someone from “Northern Europe” would be unlikely to own anything else.
I’m American, and although I wouldn’t wear a thong, mostly because I sunburn badly enough as it is, I do think we are overly hung up on the idea that people should either look like supermodels in everything they wear or else stay home. Wear what you want, jeez. And I’m told Speedos enable a person to move through the water with less friction; they’re not exclusive to bodybuilders.
An amusing aside…some years ago, the City of Miami passed an ordnance that required that women’s swimsuits had to be of a certain minimum area. The cops actually had to carry around tape measures to check? This MUST have been hilarious for the officers involved!
Miami literally had bikini inspectors? Now all those novelty t-shirts seem even lamer.
Bizarrely - they had tape measure inspections for women’s olympic beach volleyball - to make sure the bikini bottoms weren’t MORE than a certain height (at the side). How fking sexist is that?
I bet they didn’t check the men’s gear showed at least 2.2 mm of pubic fuzz, just to delight the crowds.
(Of course there may have been some other sensible reason why the costumes were required to be so skimpy, but I never heard it at the time).