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"Call it the new cleavage"
The Cincinnati Enquirer ^ | May 29,2003

Posted on 05/29/2003 7:00:09 AM PDT by yankeedame

Thursday, May 29, 2003

Thong spotting gets easier


Low-rise jeans give rise to a lot of bare derriere

By Gina Daugherty
The Cincinnati Enquirer

Plumber's butt. You know, that blindingly pale patch of derriere that peeks out from between a shirt that rides up and pants that slide down. Most commonly seen when a beefy plumber or other worker reaches or squats while on the job. Most common until recently, that is.

The Amana Effect is no longer just a boy's club, as women are baring their posteriors - sometimes intentionally, sometimes not - in the name of fashion. Low-rise jeans have booty poppin' out all over the place. Everyone is getting cheeky.

Call it the new cleavage.

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.

"It's not that I have them low so my thong can hang out," explains Thierauf. "It's a product of the pant."

Indeed. The space between Thierauf's belly button ring and the top of her jeans is at least three inches. She says the distance is greater on some of her other pants.

It's virtually impossible to find jeans to cover your hipbones these days, and finding them to cover your cheeks continues to get harder. When Sisqo rapped, "Let me see that thooooong," he probably didn't have to look very hard.

The thong is an absolute must for Latresha Lane. She runs Fast Lane Models in Cincinnati and without the thong, she and her models would be out of business. Visible panty lines (or VPL) are not an option.

'They show off your waist'

For the rest of us, our low-rise, hip baring jeans are causing all kinds of VPL. Some jeans are so low there isn't enough room for a zipper, as is the case with Levi's Too Superlows, which feature two snap buttons instead.

Technically speaking, the "rise" of jeans is the distance between the crotch and waist. The average rise is about 10 inches. But on low-rise pants, it can be as little as 6 inches, depending on the brand.

Recent University of Cincinnati graduate Marianne Pusz, 23, loves low-rise jeans. She won't wear anything else and says they are a "godsend to women with big butts."

"They show off your waist," Pusz says. "But if you don't have a butt, it's not going to make you look better by having your butt hang out. Older women wear the waist-high jeans, and it doesn't matter if you're the skinniest woman on the planet, they are going to make it look like you have a butt the size of Texas."

A dogged advocate of keeping cracks and thongs out of public view, Pusz buys Victoria's Secret low-cut bikini briefs. She tried going "commando" (sans underwear), but says it was "excruciating." The low-rise jeans phenomenon has led to a low-rise panty phenomenon.

Pusz is unbreakable in her resolve against panty showing, and she quickly decides only Britney Spears and Gwen Stefani can get away with it.

"Don't give me that, 'Oops I did it again, my thong is hanging out,' " says Pusz. "Unless you are Britney Spears, forget about it. If you are wearing low-rise jeans and regular underwear, you should be carted away. Panty lines plus showing your underwear is the cardinal sin of low-rise jeans."

Big shocker that Ryan Nesbitt doesn't mind, though. An 18-year-old from Mason, he has nothing against a half-inch to an inch of butt cleavage on a "Tara Reid-type" woman. "Bootylicious," he says.

All this butt cleavage has school administrators and some parents reeling. Not everyone wants to see the gluteus maximus in school, not even in anatomy class.

The Fairfield City School District last year revised its dress code to specifically address midriffs and low-slung pants.

"I think the dress code we had in place was 99 percent adequate," said board member Ann Crone. "But as styles and fads change, it needed to be tweaked to adapt to our student population."

Basically, the district agreed it doesn't want to see any midriffs or butt cleavage.

Take it from a plumber

Still, fashion comes and goes, so enjoy it now, as this butt-baring might be outdated by fall. Don't fret, though. There's still plumber's butt, unless Joe Schlueter has anything to do with it.

The owner of Schlueter Plumbing Inc. has been in the business for over 35 years. He has worked hard to shed the plumber's "showy" stigma. His plumbers wear uniforms.

"I can't guarantee you won't see a little butt crack," Schlueter says. "Plumbing does involve bending over a lot ... But we are conscious of it and we want to put someone in your home that you feel comfortable with."

And that's just better for everyone.

E-mail gdaugherty@enquirer.com


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To: finnman69
No thong there!
41 posted on 05/29/2003 8:10:58 AM PDT by ewing
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To: Xenalyte
Ladies do not show their butts in public.

Proper ladies wear their Houston FReeper shirt! (BTW - CafePress is waiting on your Paypal)

Fine Fashion for Houston's FReeper babes

42 posted on 05/29/2003 8:12:24 AM PDT by Flyer (© 1999 - 2003)
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To: ewing
I think its questionable if Belly Girl is in fact not going commando.
43 posted on 05/29/2003 8:12:57 AM PDT by finnman69 (!)
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To: finnman69; null and void
Thanks a lot for the pics.
44 posted on 05/29/2003 8:13:12 AM PDT by Sparta (Tagline removed by moderator)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
Durn! I remember that episode. LOL
45 posted on 05/29/2003 8:14:00 AM PDT by The Shootist
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To: finnman69
Beat ya to it! neener neener neener!
46 posted on 05/29/2003 8:19:58 AM PDT by null and void
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To: finnman69
I suppose we could ask Kafir?
47 posted on 05/29/2003 8:21:13 AM PDT by null and void
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To: yankeedame
I wear the low rise jeans. They are comfortable and they look good on me. What is the big deal? There's nothing wrong with thongs either. Geesh, some of you are trying to turn pants and underwear into the devil himself.


48 posted on 05/29/2003 8:21:39 AM PDT by Born in a Rage
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To: finnman69
"think its questionable if Belly Girl is in fact not going commando."

Thanks for destroying my productivity for the day. Mmmmmmmmmm...BellyGirl...

49 posted on 05/29/2003 8:22:52 AM PDT by AngryJawa ("I need a hacksaw..." - Jack Bauer)
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To: Born in a Rage
I wear the low rise jeans. They are comfortable and they look good on me. What is the big deal? There's nothing wrong with thongs either. Geesh, some of you are trying to turn pants and underwear into the devil himself.

Are you an adult? If so, there's a big difference between you and kids in K-12...

50 posted on 05/29/2003 8:25:30 AM PDT by Fury
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To: finnman69
Or belly girl threw the thong to the side..like a good GOP girl!
51 posted on 05/29/2003 8:27:05 AM PDT by ewing
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To: yankeedame
The problem with the low-rise look is that the large majority of women simply do not look... optimal.. in them. Even if you have the slightest trace of fat on your waist, the lowrise jeans will show it.

The older you get, the worse it is. Unfortunately, my eyes are assaulted each day by women who have lying mirrors...

(besides, it reminds me of the low-rise phase of the late 60's, early 70's. To me, that looks so, old fashioned and silly.. fashion can be cyclical I guess, who'd have thought that boxers would be popular?)

52 posted on 05/29/2003 8:27:49 AM PDT by Paradox
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To: quitwhining
It seems like simple math to me. Thanks for sharing.
53 posted on 05/29/2003 8:28:20 AM PDT by RLJVet
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To: FreedominJesusChrist
LOOK! You're ahead of the trend!!
54 posted on 05/29/2003 8:32:35 AM PDT by RedBloodedAmerican
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To: Xenalyte
Even at my least clad, two seasons ago, I showed nothing.

Which is yet another reason I need to get photoshop.

55 posted on 05/29/2003 8:38:17 AM PDT by humblegunner (Molon Labe!!!)
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To: buffyt
I dont think hip huggers were as low as these things.
56 posted on 05/29/2003 8:38:44 AM PDT by ethical
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To: Fury
I'm 36. But, I don't see a problem with girls wearing pants in that style either. When I wear them, my belly doesn't show or anything else. I like them because if I wear the high-waisted pants the rest of the pant are super-super baggy...plus they are annoying when I have to bend. Just trying to give you some perspective. Anyway, they are not for everybody. If a person is overweight, they shouldn't wear them. The only time I've ever noticed anyone of any age wearing a 'low-rise' pair of pants is when I see an overweight person wearing them and I think to myself, "OMG, why in the world is that poor lady/girl wearing those pants with all of her fat hanging out. That's looks terrible."
57 posted on 05/29/2003 8:38:54 AM PDT by Born in a Rage
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To: yankeedame
Whores.

Period.
58 posted on 05/29/2003 8:41:35 AM PDT by Timesink
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To: Timesink
dude you need therapy........
59 posted on 05/29/2003 8:43:09 AM PDT by vin-one (I wish i had something clever to put in this tag)
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To: Timesink
You need to lighten up a little bit, friend.
60 posted on 05/29/2003 8:44:15 AM PDT by 68skylark
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