"Call it the new cleavage"

The Cincinnati Enquirer ^ | May 29,2003

[quitwhining]

Hey, I have four teenage daughters and not one dresses like that. Im the MOM. Its my JOB to teach them class and self-respect. I tell them I am not their friend, I am their mom. They dont want to look like sluts, and they dont. They know I wont buy the clothes, they know if they buy them I wont let them out of the house, they know if they sneak it I will catch them and they'll have to change. Has it been easy? Nope! But now they accept it as a given. They have also noticed how respectfully they are treated by the boys.

[68skylark]

Think of it as a way to beautify America. It's a lot better than a burka.

Good point -- despite a few folks who commit aesthetic sins, I'm very glad we still live in a country where all of us (especially women!) are free to dress as they choose. Makes me proud to be American!

[The Shootist]

"Embarrassingly remembering that tube tops and roller coasters definately do not do well together."

LOL. I can only imagine, and I will.

[Xenalyte]

Oh, this is just not RIGHT. Ladies do not show their butts in public.

Even at my least clad, two seasons ago, I showed nothing.

[The Shootist]

The Norge !

Norge? All I know about Norge is that it used to be a home appliance brand and it is also what Norwegians call Norway.

Pray, enlighten me on its new usage, oh sage.

[The Shootist]

TRUE! We wore hip huggers back in the 1960s. No big deal. I am a 52 year old woman and I say this style is no big deal.

And Hot Pants! Where have all the Hot Pants gone?

If some of these folks don't like low rider jeans imagine if the teens decided to start wearing bikini cut short shorts?

[finnman69]

Im so all over this..except when it involves overweight women with fat rolls handing out over their lowrider pants. Nothing wrong with dressing sexy as long as you can pull it off and you are over the age of 16.

[aShepard]

At Bee Clean Car Wash in Mason, Annamarie Minturn and Cassie Thierauf, both 19, are baring their butts (albeit unintentionally) every time they lean over a car, bend down to vacuum or wipe down a tire. Thierauf's rhinestone-studded thong is there for all to see. She doesn't mean to, but when your pants hug your hips, it's bound to happen

Yeah, I'm sure she doesn't mean to, I always expect girls to wear a rhinestone studded thong when they work in a car wash!

It's for the children, doncha know!

[68skylark]

At Bee Clean Car Wash in Mason, Annamarie Minturn and Cassie Thierauf, both 19, are baring their butts (albeit unintentionally) every time they lean over a car. . . Thierauf's rhinestone-studded thong is there for all to see.

There's now way the author really expects anyone to believe that "unintentional" part, is there?

[vin-one]

so, do your daughters wear thongs?
had a big discussion with someone a long time ago about
how I was a bad parent for allowing my daughters to wear thongs,
I constantly battle, with all the women in my life what is appropriate and what is not.
Visible thongs, is one that I don't like to see on my kids,
but as a man like to see them on real women.
yes call me a hypocrite, or a pig,
I will answer to both.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Hence the origin of "buttcrack tattoos".

[Eric in the Ozarks]

From Saturday Night Live in about 1977 or so. I think it was Dan Ackroyd who showed up to remove the old Norge refrigerator that had finally broken down. He made a big thing about bending over to try to move the frige...every time, displaying a butt crack which was hilarious. From then on, this area of the anatomy was referred to as "the Norge."

[ken5050]

Rhinestones can scratch the paint when the bend over the hood to wipe it off....OSHA is investigating..

[vin-one]

I thought they were only showing their thongs,,,,,,
maybe a little butt clevage.
still remember a young lady sitting on a bar stool last summer
her thong must have been half way up her back
I can't imagine how uncomfortable that would be......

[null and void]

It's not always in bad taste:

[finnman69]

Lets all remember the latest favorite FR example of this....

[ken5050]

Better a thong than a tattoo....tattoos are forever, unless you have expensive laser surgery to remove them...

[finnman69]

GMTA

[Siouxz]

OMG!!! Eighth grade field trip to Geauga Lake amusement park near Cleveland, OH. Red and white striped tube top. First "dip" on the Big Dipper! Thankfully, they didn't have cameras back then, and I don't think anybody saw.

LOL! Thanks for the mammaries, er, memories!