The Guardian UK has spoken on an all-important fashion question that many women have been struggling with:
Are the 1970s back in style and if so, does this mean that panty lines are ok again?
Haldey Freeman, fashion expert extradonnaire, gives the VLP (Visible Panty Line) a definitive no. She corrects a common mis-conception about decades being brought back into fashion; just because a decade is back in fashion, it doesn’t mean that everything from the decade has to be brought along for the ride.
To make the rules about the 1970s absolutely clear:
“This means in the specific case of the return of the 70s, long skirts, yes; men with perms, no; gold detailing and blouses, yes; espadrilles and VPL, no. No, no, no.”
Whatever you do, don’t mistake the UK fashion writer for a typical G-string Fascist: Hadley Freeman strongly contends that she is not a “G-string Fascist and believes that G-strings it is about as sexy as a colostomy bag. And as with a colostomy bag, it is there to serve a purpose, namely, to prevent VPL.”
In a nutshell, consider wearing a G-string not as a fashionable decision to highlight the beauty of your nearly-naked backside, but as a way to smooth out and eliminate that troublesome VLP that plagues all women too lazy (or uptight) to allow what amounts to a piece of dental floss to crawl up their behinds. To paraphrase Hadley Freeman, it’s just considered good manners to wear a G-string to get rid of the VLP.