It’s obviously different for different women. When I was young and hot in college I used to go without regularly. Now I almost never would. Leakage does happen, and it’s normal and there’s nothing wrong with it, but it’s uncomfortable and awkward.
There are some notable exceptions to the fashionistas’ bare leg rule: Zooey Deschanel, Katy Perry, and the Middleton girls. I personally wish more girls would have an honest look at their legs and see if they really should go bare.
I’m not terribly interested in the intimate details of Anne Hathaway’s nether regions- I think the polite thing to do is try not to look at such a flash, certainly don’t take a photo, and by all means don’t publish a photo. If you want to see a woman’s twat, buy a copy of Penthouse.
Talk of leakage is spoiling a nice thread.
Yeah, it’s this. I have had the (rare) occasion to dispense with panties if there’s a danger of VPL. It’s isn’t ideal, but needs must.
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They make such bandages - they look like big black rectangles. I’ve seen photos of people with their private parts covered in such.
Which I accept, but Anna Hathaway is also just a couple of years older than me (she’s 30). I suspect if she chose to go without, that’s a pretty good indicator that she is more like me and less likely to leak everywhere.
Also, can I just say that I’m laughing hysterically at the genuine suggestion that she wear long shorts under that dress? Hell, why doesn’t she just get some sweet bike shorts and wear them under? It’s stylish AND modest! Or some bloomers, maybe!
Usually, when this happens, it’s because the woman in question is trying to salvage a floundering career by flashing her private parts, but wants the tiny shred of plausible deniability that would be lost by posing for Penthouse.
In this case, though, I consider that rather unlikely, given that Ms. Hathaway just starred in a relatively successful movie this past summer, and is in one that’s expected to be a smash opening imminently. She hardly needs any desperate moves to boost her career right now.
Perhaps muffs will be making a fashion comeback.
I was about to add “And tan lines, too!” until I clicked on the link. :mad:
Stretch mini-vans! Better yet, stretch the old A-Team van for delivery to premieres, etc. You just walk out of the van.
When I headline a movie - that is where my first check is going. I wonder if I can get Mr. T to drive for me?
Perhaps Miss Hathaway was innocently unware of this possibility, but despite her public statements on the subject, she hasn’t been at all shy about displaying her body in the films she’s made. This could easily be the intentional act of a very ambitious actress.
Because it is unthinkable that a young woman might accidentally have a slip up. Instead, the most likely reason for the flash was that she was trying to advance her career, because all women who display their pink bits are doing so intentionally and as part of their greater plot for world domination.
Like the time I was at the beach and a wave knocked my swim top off my chest, exposing my breasts to the beach before me. I knew there would be waves, you see, and this was all part of my master plan to use sex to get myself named Queen of the Beach.
Excellent plan! Carry on.
Is anyone besides me wishing the mods would add “Queen of the Beach” to DiosaBellissima’s title? 
I addressed this point in the OP. I distinguished between things like a strap breaking or a seam splitting (or a swimsuit top falling off) and what happened here. Anne Hathaway’s underwear didn’t accidentally fall off her body as she was riding to the event. She made the intentional choice to leave her underwear at home.
Right, but under normal circumstances, her dress covered her vulva. An accident happened and suddenly her vulva was uncovered. Sure, she could have worn a different dress or put on some underwear, but (in my beach example) I also could have worn a bigger, better fitting swim top. Shit happens.
If the worst thing that happens to me in my life is that a beach gets to see my tits when I’m in my early 20s and they look awesome, I’m going to say my life isn’t so bad. If the worst thing that happens to Anne Hathaway is that someone catches a glimpse of her labia as she’s getting out of a car (while 500 photographers are literally crawling on the ground in an attempt to get upskirts anyway) . . . again, her life isn’t so bad. What I take issue with is the suggestion that she for some reason did this on purpose. This isn’t some D list actress spread eagle while getting out of a car-- this is a real actress, a successful actress, whose dress clearly shifted in an awkward way and she had an accident. Sure, she chose not to wear underwear, but under most circumstances that really isn’t usually a problem.
Exactly. There are awards shows, movie premieres, red carpet events, and so on happening all the time. Most of the actresses in attendance are not wearing underwear, because the kinds of dresses they’re wearing are made from very unforgiving material. But how often do you hear about one of them flashing a photographer getting out of a car? Pretty rarely, even though it’s always news when it happens, which makes it seem like it’s happening more often than it is. The odds are way, way against it actually happening. But if you know you’re wearing a tight or thin dress, then the odds are almost certain that you’re going to show VPL, and whether or not we think it’s a dumb thing to worry about, the fact is that it’s considered a major fashion faux pas in a situation like that. Most actresses just go with the odds.
Absolutely true. And since my last comment, I realized yet another thing: so, she is wearing a tight dress— underwear bunches and it rides up. Frankly, I’d probably go commando rather than risk having an uncomfortable wedgie (or worse, that horrible thing where your thong rides up and presses on your tail bone. . . er, I think that’s what it is). Can you imagine the headlines? “ANNE HATHAWAY PICKS WEDGIE ON RED CARPET!!!”
You’d think that’s something that Julie Andrews would have covered in The Princess Diaries.
Kate Middleton seems to have that maneuver well in hand. So to speak.
A cork should be sufficient.