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Not ‘Everyone’ is Wearing Thongs Anymore
December 01, 2009
I know I haven’t put a thong on in a long time. A couple of years ago, I wore them more. But, frankly, I like to wear skirts and dresses more than pants. Wearing a thong with these always left me feeling a little… shall we say "breezy" on my backside. So, my panty shape of choice is a low-rise bikini.
I was reading an interview with supermodel Gisele Bundchen in Elle Magazine. Now, if anyone would be wearing thongs regularly, I thought it would be supermodels. Guess what? I’m wrong. Here’s what Bundchen said:
"I’m a huge fan of big cotton underpants; they’re comfortable… I wear them every day." Now, it was also noted that her words are in Brazilianspeak – "big" in Brazil is equivalent to a bikini-cut panty and not a granny panty. But still, it was great to read this.
Another supermodel, Tyra Banks, was once quoted as saying that the smaller the bottom of a bathing suit, the thinner you look. And, I agree. Not only do bikinis not poke out above your pants, but they are comfortable while providing enough coverage so that you wouldn’t be embarrassed should a gust of wind raise your skirt.
Finally, on this same subject, an article came out in the New York Times about the panties that erase panty lines. Five panties were featured – not one was a thong. The winner was the OnGossamer Cabana Cotton Hip-bikini. The article stated that this bikini was "totally comfortable" and "Literally, there were zero lines…"
If a bikini can provide zero panty lines, what woman wouldn’t prefer a panty over a thong? Does anyone disagree?
Sometimes, the way a panty looks depends on the way we wear them. I wrote about wearing panties too high a while back.
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Posted by Tomima at 9:35am
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Do Your Underwires Poke Your Underarms? Here’s a Possible Solution
October 08, 2009
The industry answer to women complaining about underwires poking into their underarm is usually to say their cup size is too small. The theory here is that the underwire is not wide enough to totally wrap around your breast and the cup is not deep enough. Thus the wire is resting on breast tissue too far forward on your torso – the result being the underwire tip is getting in the way and hitting your underarm. A larger cup size comes with a wider underwire and deeper cup that will rest further back under your arm and not rest on your breast tissue. Thus you will no longer be poked. In many situations, I would agree with this recommendation. However, I own bras where this symptom has occurred, and I have been able to solve the problem without having to size up. Want to know how?
First, you need to put your geometry cap on. Think of your torso as a cylinder. As a cylinder, your torso has no flat horizontal surfaces – only curved surfaces. If you held a ruler horizontally to your torso, the center of the ruler would touch you, but the ends would not. They would be extending away from your torso.
A bra’s underwire is cut from a flat sheet of metal. It’s basically a smiley face shape, but flat. So, the ends of an underwire can have the same effect as the ends of a ruler. However, if you bend your underwire a little in the center of its smile, the underwire takes on a shape better suited to your cylindrical torso. (See image above.)
Personally, I give all my underwires this subtle bend. It’s not very much, but I’ve found that the fit is better and my underwires are more comfortable. And, when I try on a bra in my size and notice the underwire ends under my arm are protruding or resting on breast tissue instead of where they need to be, I’ll give them a little bend in the middle. This always seems to solve the problem. Again, it’s not much of a bend, but it can make a big difference.
Let me also share with you that there is sort of a moral to this story: don’t be afraid to manipulate your underwires. Underwires can get bent out of shape in a number of ways – during washing, mishandling in your lingerie drawer etc. So, don’t be afraid to work with them until they fit you. You have to put a lot of stress on an underwire before it will break. And, it’s been my experience that if I don’t like the bend, underwires are easy to manipulate back to the beginning position.
Learn more about underwires and bra fitting.
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Posted by Tomima at 11:09am
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Are You Wearing Your Panties Too High?
September 16, 2009
I know you may think this sounds like a silly question, but are you? Are you pulling your underpants up too high? I bring this up because I realized that with some of my panty styles, I was.
Here’s a little background. The thong as a mainstream panty option hit about 15 years ago. And, if you remember, the initial trend setters complained it was not comfortable. Further research discovered that these women were putting on the thongs and pulling them up so that the waistband rested high on their hips – this was the problem. Women didn’t realize at the time that the thong was designed to sit lower on the hips. After all, low rise pants were not yet making their debut on the market. Only strippers and showgirls knew that thongs were to rest lower on the hips. Since then, manufacturers either made thongs with longer rises so that women could pull them up to their waist, or put tags on them to let women know they were low-rise.
Okay, so back to my question. I was going through my panty assortment the other day and singling out the panties that I felt were not comfortable to wear. I have all styles in my drawer – boyshorts, thongs, bikinis, briefs–you name it, I have it. When I had finished sorting out the ones I didn’t like, I noticed something; they were all low-rise. So it got me thinking. I grabbed a pair and put it on like I do all my panties and realized I just instinctively pulled them up too high. When getting dressed, I have a bit of a ritual and move from item to item without much thought. All my panties were treated the same, regardless of style.
So, this time, I put on a low-rise bikini, but instead of my normal mindless pull-up, I thought about where it should be placed and I lowered the waistband to rest more on my hips. What an epiphany! This panty was now comfortable. I wore it all day and it felt great. I can’t believe I was doing this.
Here’s the lesson; stop and think about the style of panty you’ve just picked before mindlessly putting it on. If you have some panties you have been avoiding because of comfort, go back and look at them through new glasses. I think you’ll be as surprised as I that many pairs really are comfortable when put on correctly.
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Posted by Tomima at 10:19am
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