Borat killed the Thong
FASHION - Its confirmed, the thong is dead as a fashion item. Oh sure, some people (who don't have a clue) will continue to wear the thong, especially if they're hicks or just mucking around with their boyfriend... but as a serious fashion item (ie. supermodels wear it on fashion catwalks) the thong is dead. Some say Monica Lewinsky kick-started her affair with Bill Clinton by showing him hers. Some say the thong is uncomfortable, impractical and leaves nothing to the imagination. All we know is its dead, maybe not as dead as powdered wigs, but certainly dead as far as the lingerie industry is concerned. In the glory days of the thong it never once outsold women's panties, briefs or even jockeys. What it had instead was media attention. During the 1990s the thong was on the catwalks, it was promoted by Cosmopolitan, it broke rules for what was considered sexy... and the next thing you know people were wearing them in public, accompanied by low-rise jeans and Sisqo wrote ...
