THE EVOLUTION OF PANTS

by lisa, Apr 3, 2009, at 02:22 am

First there were pants. Then there were low-rise pants. With low-rise pants came the peekaboo thong. First, we were embarassed. Then, we learned to embrace, no, flaunt our underwear. We even color coordinated. Finally, pants plus underwear have reached their inevitable pinnacle: pants with built-in thong.

Behold:

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So, what do you think? Do you wear underwear with those pants? I’m so confused.

You have my sister, Keely W., to thank for this. Thanks Keely!

Also in the pornification of everyday life, see this post on Gossip Girl and this p0st on the old and new Beverly Hills 90210.

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Moedinha aqui, por favor « O Caroço 5:51 am on April 3, 2009 | # | Reply

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Chris 7:03 am on April 3, 2009 | # | Reply

This is as tacky as the jeans with the built-in boxer shorts of the 90’s.
mercurianferret 9:54 am on April 3, 2009 | # | Reply

Uhh… Lisa, if the peek-a-boo thong is worn without underwear, would society have to create a term referring to the female-analogous term for “free balling”?
mercurianferret 9:57 am on April 3, 2009 | # | Reply

oh, wait. They’re Japanese. As a Japanese person, I’m no longer surprised.
anna 10:06 am on April 3, 2009 | # | Reply

beyond trashy….. seems like more and more, the fashion industry and people in general are prone to PRETENDING that girls have control over their sexualities….
TM 11:23 am on April 3, 2009 | # | Reply

You should like this video. Key points: “Tulips”, The Asian woman having a small lawn, the Black woman with a not so tiny one.
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abby 12:02 pm on April 3, 2009 | # | Reply

high rise pants are back in fashion. good riddance underwear pants.
Amy 12:57 pm on April 3, 2009 | # | Reply

omg, these pants are a pregnant woman’s dream come true! A cute fit! A rise that tracks below The Belly! Underwear you can tie and retie as you grow!

They could mark up the price at least 75% if they put the word “maternity” on the tag.
dreikin 5:29 pm on April 3, 2009 | # | Reply

Um – is there a reason the picture has “ho_jeansthumbnail” as the alt-text? and the file name?

I also find it interesting that there’s a zipper on the side – apparently these things are supposed to be so tight that you need a zipper just to get them *half-way* up the hips.
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kane 7:11 pm on April 3, 2009 | # | Reply

I would wear these with granny-panties. Sexy! Provocative! Take THAT, fashion!
Raksha 2:48 am on April 4, 2009 | # | Reply

Wow. These are the ugliest pair of pants I have ever seen, and that’s saying a lot, since I live in a backwater hick town in rural Idaho. People really will buy just about anything.
Breck 7:11 am on April 4, 2009 | # | Reply

I think this episode of Achewood is all that need be said on the subject.
Shae 2:37 pm on April 4, 2009 | # | Reply

I thought that peekaboo thong bit was Way out of style.

I don’t know anyone who does that anymore, and who isn’t embarrassed if they once did.
Sabriel 1:47 am on April 5, 2009 | # | Reply

Not just Japan. I saw something like this for sale in Atlanta at least a year ago. I don’t think the thong part was as extreme, though. Not as much skin showing. Still, tacky.

And yeah, actually I would hope they would be tight enough that you have to zip them up to get them halfway up the thigh. Can you imagine those pants staying on if the legs weren’t tight? There’s no real waistband to speak of…
Joe 10:29 am on April 5, 2009 | # | Reply

hot. simply hot.

and I mean that with all due respect to the problematics of women’s bodies becoming colonized and exploited terrain.

HOT!
Miriam 11:22 am on April 5, 2009 | # | Reply

Tacky as hell.

Dear Joe,

Women can be (and dress) hot without looking cheap and tacky.
Stuart Foster 1:02 pm on April 5, 2009 | # | Reply

I spit out my cereal…this may have been the funniest thing I have seen in quite some time. Takes the “whale tail” to a completely different level.
Jesse 3:00 pm on April 7, 2009 | # | Reply

Women can be (and dress) hot without looking cheap and tacky

What’s wrong with being “cheap and tacky”?
Is this about sexism or is this about class markers? “Women aren’t cheap whores, they’re expensive.”
Rowan 8:43 pm on April 7, 2009 | # | Reply

I want to see them on a–ahem–”full figured” woman… oh wait–No, I really wouldn’t. But it’s bound to happen. Remember all those muffin topped women wearing crop tops a few years ago? Yuck…
Village Idiot 12:18 pm on April 8, 2009 | # | Reply

The belly piercing really ties the whole outfit together, but apparently a ‘tramp stamp’ is now out of vogue.

Whether they’re hot or not is up to the beholder, but being attracted to the pants instead of the person wearing them is a recipe for disappointment (as the current divorce rate can attest). She’s gonna have to take her hot pants off at some point and will probably ultimately prefer to wear some comfortable sweats or something, at which point her presumed mate will grow disgusted and leave in search of newer, tighter, smaller pants. Or something.
Mr. Eddie 9:39 pm on April 8, 2009 | # | Reply

I think these pants are So Fine.
Tiffani 8:41 pm on April 10, 2009 | # | Reply

I’m not gonna lie…I actually really like these pants. I think they’re cute and they look good.

And honestly? Who’s to say they’re sexist or demeaning in any way? I think they’re interesting and they look good on the model. I don’t see why it’s tacky to show skin. I’m sure people were saying the same thing about tank tops and shorts at some point.
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