Disturbing Fashion Trend: Tween Thongs
Posted by: Amelia McDonell-Parry
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2:16PM, Tuesday December 4th 2007
We just started wearing thongs, like, yesterday. [Not really, but we have only three pairs and we hate every second of wearing them.] They are uncomfortable and expose the not-so-cute butt cheeks and only serve one purpose and that is to prevent VPL when we’re wearing something tight or sheer-ish. Which is why we don’t understand why thongs are available for girls in the tween age bracket, i.e., seven to 12 years old. When you’re seven to 12 years old, you should be wearing overalls and t-shirts and maybe dresses but only when you’re going to a birthday party or church, if you come from that kind of family. You shouldn’t be wearing tight skirts and low-rise jeans and slutty dresses from the Paris Hilton department at Macy’s. So we did a Google search for “tween thongs”—tech support, it’s research, ok?—and came across some tween/teen online boutique called Daisy Maze, which does indeed sell a wide variety of thong underwear in teeny tiny sizes. What’s scarier is that these thongs cannot possibly even be excused away as totally for VPL-banishing functionality—they have bows and trinkets dangling from them and come in sexy/virginal prints and have such a tiny piece of thread in the back that we seriously blushed. When society’s ills start to make us feel like crotchety old prudish ladies, there is a problem.
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Syphrite
wrote on February 19 2008 @ 08:00 pm: [report]
My mother would have never bought me a tween thong! I didn’t even know or care about VPL when I was 12. Eek…I vote inappropriate on this one.
toyen
wrote on March 27 2008 @ 11:35 am: [report]
Wow. I am so disturbed:
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Being a teen girl in ‘08 is so different than the early ‘90s. Poor girls.
atlgirl
wrote on March 27 2008 @ 12:53 pm: [report]
Thongs are a cruel, but necessary, evil. Any girl who thinks she doesn’t need them to eradicate VPL when wearing sheer light colored pants is sorely deluded.
Has anyone seen the “baby thongs” fake commercial on SNL?
Aerick
wrote on June 13 2008 @ 03:24 pm: [report]
welcome to america, in france girls as young as 13 can wear what they want, go to 95% of south american countries an its not rude to be topless..just here in the states, get over it all ready, we are so far behind in this department
vanya
wrote on February 5 2009 @ 12:08 pm: [report]
Actually, a nude boyshort will get rid of VPL under sheer light-coloured pants - no thong needed.
oceanbreeze
wrote on May 27 2009 @ 12:09 am: [report]
Overalls?!? ug. And u write about fashion! What a hick. Glad ur not my mother. What’s wrong with thongs if u like em? The thongs at daisymaze.com are Junior size not kids. If a young girl wants to wear them, let her. Get a life.
SamanthaSugar
wrote on August 21 2009 @ 04:45 pm: [report]
If thongs didn’t have such a sexual connotation to it then, yeah girls would be able to wear thongs. However why would it matter what a girl’s underwear looks like if she’s the only one seeing it, therefor no need for a thong. Also, since it obviously isn’t for comfort the girl wants to become more sexually attractive right? A pretty bad motive to be approving of moms out there.