# What's this on Gidget's butt?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-on-gidgets-butt/1011285>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\
**Created:** [December 7, 2024, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-on-gidgets-butt/1011285 "2024-12-07T03:59:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2024, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-on-gidgets-butt/1011285/1 "2024-12-07T03:59:53Z")

</div>

Watching _Gidget_ 1x03, The Great Kahuna. Noticed the big white square on the back of her bikini. Looks like a pocket. Did they used to make bikinis with pockets?

[![](https://i.imgur.com/OZbdtSf.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/OZbdtSf.jpeg)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2024, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-on-gidgets-butt/1011285/2 "2024-12-07T04:00:39Z")

</div>

I assume it was for condoms.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2024, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-on-gidgets-butt/1011285/3 "2024-12-07T05:10:51Z")

</div>

A patch pocket.  
Fashion is stupid sometimes.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2024, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-on-gidgets-butt/1011285/4 "2024-12-07T12:22:22Z")

</div>

She forgot to take the tag off? 😉

I can recall owning boy’s swim trunks from that era. Contrasting color patch pockets were standard.

Interestingly … boy’s / men’s trunks of that era were not much longer than her outfit. Far from the knee-length “board shorts” of the modern era. Trunks then were less form-fitting that her bikini bottom though. Probably a good thing.

We can’t see the front of Gidget’s outfit in the OP’s pic. But I was thinking you could probably make 5, maybe 10, modern bikini bottoms from the material in her one bottom. The top is maybe more like 3 or 5 modern ones from her single top.