[presidio9]

Big Thongs Mean Big Business April 28, 2004 — There are big bucks in big thongs.

http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/news/04282004_bb_thongs.html

Click Here for More WPVI.com Bizarre News Retailer Torrid is carving out a niche that fits – in the plus-sized market.

The company sells sexy clothes for large young women in more than 50 stores across the country. The Wall Street Journal reports Torrid has everything from camisole-and-thong lingerie sets to belly-button revealing T-shirts.

CEO Betsy McLaughlin says her customers want to be sexy and feminine – in sizes from 12-to-26.

Even Torrid's logo makeover sends the message. The typeface has gone from skinny and jagged to pink and rounded.

[SF Republican]

Every generation has their thing, I remember (with fondness) hot pants.

[Huck]

I'm sorry, but most parents let their 11 year olds walk around in public looking like $40 whores.

[Always Right]

The girls wearing those low-riders expose more butt-crack than my plumber.

[mountaineer]

her customers want to be sexy and feminine – in sizes from 12-to-26.

Trying desperately to bite my tongue.

[Agnes Heep]

"I'm 16. I can legally drive. But people are going to tell me (what's) appropriate for school?" she said. "I mean, I'm not coming to school dressed in a bikini."

Three of the most useless things in the world: boobs on a dyke, balls on a fag, and the opinion of a teenager.

[biblewonk]

I like the term "prostitots"

[CatoRenasci]

Maybe we should just have the kids come to school naked.... and abandon all pretense of anything but prurient interest on the part of the faculty.

[kezekiel]

It's increasingly difficult for my conservative 16-year-old daughter to find clothes that are not revealing. I've gone with her; it blows my mind what the stores put on the racks for teenage girls.

[Inspectorette]

How can these young women think they look good, when they're wearing low-rider pants with their big fat guts and spare tires hanging over the belt.

[Mr. Mojo]

I must admit that back when I was in high school and pretty girls showed up wearing little more than bikinis. .......well, let's just say I was ok with it ;)~

[BikerTrash]

"It's pretty difficult to get a job when your rear end is hanging out."

Depends on where you're gonna work, in some places it's mandatory.

[The Great RJ]

Look at their role models--Mother of all whores, Madonna, Brittany, etc.

What's really disgusting is the preteen fashions. Seeing 11 year olds dressing like hookers complete with troweled on makeup makes me sick.

[Little Ray]

Dagnabit, I wish I was back in High School to exploit all this degeneracy.

Hot pants, short-shorts, and mini-skirts. I think I liked mini-skirts the best.

Of course any daughter of mine is going to wearing a habit to school... or at least a uniform.

[Fresh Wind]

Mr. Clinton and all his supporters taught us that thongs are appropriate for the Oval Office. So, what's the problem with having them in schools?

[Skooz]

We had these weird things called "Dress Codes" when I was in school.

I guess formulating and enforcing one of those is beyond comprehension.

[lormand]

I don't understand how showing off your love handles with these hip hugging pants is sexy? The hip huggers are so tight, that even women who don't have love handles, appear to have them.

[Bismarck]

The answer is... school uniform! Of course, it should be up to each school's board to decide upon the characertistic's of its uniform. Antother feasible solution is to implement a dress code.

[jettester]

"My high school had a uniform. My grammar school had a uniform. And I don't think I learned any better because of that," Hannigan said. "I think we have a reasonable dress code. Before the school board jumps in and makes changes, let's see how an enforced dress code works."

This dufus doesn't get it - what you wear is not intended to make you learn "better" but to allow you learn in an environment that is healthier and not distracting. Adherance to a dress code is a way to instill discipline not only in the kids but also the parents.

[CatoRenasci]

When I was in high school, in the pre-Hippie early '60s, we had dress codes: girls dresses/skirts could not be more than 3 inches above the middle of the knee, no jeans for girls (but slacks OK), only Bermuda shorts (in August-September and May-June), no tight sweaters, no see-through blouses, strapless dresses, no spaghetti straps, etc. etc.

It all changed between 1966 and 1970 -- where we were in Northern Calfiornia -- as girls became "weekend hippie flower children", going braless (and pantiless) to San Francisco in very short shift dresses, low rider jeans and showing lots of belly. In all honesty, I'm not so sure what we see now is a whole lot different, except for the tatoos and piercings, from what you saw in Haight Ashbury in San Francisco in the Summer of 1967.

[ikka]

"There's something to be said for preparing students for life after high school and (teaching) appropriate grooming habits and dress habits," Fields said. "It's pretty difficult to get a job when your rear end is hanging out."

Well, difficult to get certain kinds of jobs anyway.